Margaret "Meg" Heap

Margaret “Meg” Heap was appointed interim U.S. Attorney by former Attorney General Pamela Bondi and sworn in on August 18, 2025.  On December 15, 2025, she was formally appointed permanent U.S. Attorney by the Southern District’s U.S. District Court Judges.

Mrs. Heap served as the Chairman and Vice Chair of Georgia’s State Board of Pardons and Paroles.  She was appointed to the Board on January 19, 2021, by Governor Brian Kemp.   In 1986, Mrs. Heap began her legal career as a Volunteer Coordinator and Victim Advocate with the Chatham County District Attorney’s Victim-Witness Assistance Program. After attending Mercer University Law School, she received her Juris Doctor in 1992 and went on to serve as an Assistant District Attorney in the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit, where she prosecuted felonies in the Superior and Juvenile Court.

From 1995-2010, Mrs. Heap served the citizens in the Eastern Judicial Circuit as an Assistant District Attorney and later served two terms as the District Attorney. In 2019, she was named the “District Attorney of the Year” by the District Attorneys’ Association of Georgia.

As U.S. Attorney, Mrs. Heap is the chief federal law enforcement officer for the Southern District of Georgia, which covers 43 of Georgia’s 159 counties and a population of more than 1.6 million people. The district includes the cities of Savannah, Augusta, Brunswick, Statesboro, Dublin, and Waycross. She leads a team of approximately 70 attorneys and staff prosecuting federal crimes in the district and defending the United States in civil cases in the U.S. District Court.