U.S. Marshals Appointed by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.


     Last November, I made the announcement that President Biden had appointed his first two nominees to be U.S. marshals, the chief federal law enforcement officers in their districts, the same districts that U.S. attorneys serve as chief prosecutors. These nominees, like President Biden's nominees to be U.S. attorneys, have been historic, overwhelmingly people of color. In my opinion, appointing marshals is just as important as or more important than appointing U.S. attorneys. The DOJ is working to systematically overhaul its policing protocols: the U.S. Marshals Service is the largest law enforcement agency in the country, making nearly 100,000 arrests every year, and it has been involved in some of the more high-profile instances of police brutality in the United States. Appointing qualified nominees committed to building trust in the communities they serve and implementing reforms to keep everyone safer is crucial in helping law enforcement and people of color alike, and the U.S. Marshals Service is also a crucial component of President Biden's plan to combat gun violence by cracking down on illicit firearms tracking. 

     While I made the announcement last autumn, I had no platform to track their nominations and confirmations like I do for the U.S. attorneys or federal judges and D.C. judges Biden has appointed. President Biden would make a second announcement in April while both of the men he originally appointed would be confirmed by May. From executive nominees in the Justice Department to a historic rate of federal judges to dozens of U.S. attorneys and now U.S. marshals, the Senate Judiciary Committee is on track to have a busy 117th Congress, and Senator Durbin of Illinois deserves much of the credit:

Confirmed:
  1. Eddie Frizell (District of Minnesota)
  2. LaDon Reynolds (Northern District of Illinois)
Nominated:
  1. David C. Davis (Southern District of Illinois)
  2. Enix Smith III (Eastern District of Louisiana)
  3. Thomas E. Brown (Northern District of Georgia)
  4. Stephen D. Lynn (Middle District of Georgia)
  5. Roy W. Minter, Jr. (Southern District of Georgia)
  6. Brian A. Kyes (District of Massachusetts)
  7. Chrissie Latimore (District of South Carolina)
  8. Kirk Taylor (District of Colorado)
  9. William Ryan Hart (District of New Hampshire)
  10. Terry J. Burgin (Western District of North Carolina)
  11. Glenn McNeill (Eastern District of North Carolina)
  12. Catrina Thompson (Middle District of North Carolina)
  13. Michael Purnell (Northern District of Mississippi)
  14. Dale Bell (Southern District of Mississippi)
  15. Michael D. Black (Southern District of Ohio)
  16. Stephen Eberle (Western District of Pennsylvania)
  17. Justin Martinez (District of Utah)
  18. Miranda Holloway-Baggett (Southern District of Alabama)
  19. Clinton J. Fuchs (District of Maryland)
  20. David L. Lemmon II (Southern District of West Virginia)
  21. John E. Richardson (Middle District of Alabama)
  22. Bobby Jack Woods (Eastern District of Kentucky)
  23. David O. Barnett, Jr. (District of New Mexico)
  24. Shannon Saylor (Eastern District of Virginia)
  25. Craig J. Anderson (District of Montana)

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