Criminal Division Deputy Chief - Stacey A. Erickson

Stacey A. Erickson, named Deputy Chief for Violent Crime and Narcotics in October 2022, joined the United States Attorney’s Office Criminal Division in August 2019. In addition to her criminal trial responsibilities prosecuting violent crime, human trafficking, and complex fraud and narcotics trafficking cases, Ms. Erickson has served as the United States Attorney’s Offices’ Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Coordinator and Human Trafficking Coordinator.

Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office in 2019, Ms. Erickson served as a state prosecutor for twenty-five years in the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office. In her distinguished career as a state prosecutor, Ms. Erickson was the lead prosecutor in more than 100 criminal jury trials, including prosecutions for murder, gang violence, sexual assault, drug offenses, robberies, domestic violence, organized crime, and child molestation. In her tenure as a Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General, Ms. Erickson served, at various times, as Criminal Chief, Deputy Criminal Chief, Chief of the Narcotics & Organized Crime Division, and Chief of the Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Unit. Ms. Erickson is 1990 graduate of Boston College, receiving her law degree from Suffolk University in 1993.