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Senior Management

 

First Assistant United States Attorney - Vacant

Counselor to the United States Attorney - Vacant

Executive Assistant United States Attorney - Vacant

 

John Gibson

Criminal Division Chief

John Gibson currently serves as the Chief of the Criminal Division for the Western District of Texas. In that role he oversees the work of over a hundred Assistant U.S. Attorneys and manages leadership teams in Alpine, Austin, Del Rio, El Paso, Midland, San Antonio and Waco. Prior to becoming Criminal Chief, he was assigned to the San Antonio Division serving as its City Chief and the Deputy Criminal Chief for the district. From 2003 to 2017, he was an AUSA in the El Paso Division rising to the position of OCDETF/Drug Chief. He has spent much of his career prosecuting cases involving Mexican drug cartels, transnational gangs, and criminal organizations involved in financial and violent crime. His trial work includes securing guilty verdicts resulting in life sentences on RICO and murder charges for the drug cartel member charged with directing the murders of U.S. Consulate employees in Juarez, Mexico, as well as the National President and Vice President of the Bandidos Motorcycle Gang. He received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award in 2014 and EOUSA’s Director’s Award in 2019. Prior to his service with the Department, he was an Assistant District Attorney for the 34th Judicial District of Texas and an attorney with the Texas Department of Public Safety. He is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and Sul Ross State University.

Mary F. Kruger

Civil Division Chief

Mary F. Kruger is the Civil Chief for the Western District of Texas.  Prior to being named as Civil Chief in 2020, Ms. Kruger served as the Deputy Civil Chief of Affirmative Civil Enforcement (ACE) where she supervised and prosecuted all affirmative civil litigation in the Western District of Texas.  As an AUSA in ACE, Ms. Kruger’s civil work focused on the investigation of healthcare and military procurement frauds. She transferred to Texas in 2014 from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia where she began her career with the Department in 2008. While in Georgia, she handled both civil and criminal cases for six years, working primarily in Major Crimes and as the district’s lead SAR Review Team prosecutor. Ms. Kruger obtained her undergraduate degree in History and Political Science at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Mary graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School. 

 

Updated February 14, 2025