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[photo, Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S. Attorney (Maryland)] ROD J. ROSENSTEIN
U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, 2005-17
Deputy U.S. Attorney General, 2017-19

Deputy U.S. Attorney General, April 26, 2017 to May 11, 2019. Resigned May 11, 2019.

U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, July 12, 2005 to April 25, 2017. Resigned April 25, 2017. Member, U.S. Attorney General's Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys (cyber & intellectual property issues subcommittee; sentencing issues subcommittee; violent crime subcommittee; & white collar crime subcommittee). Member, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, Baltimore City, 2005-17. Appointed by U.S. Attorney General to investigate national security leaks, 2012.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 2002-05 (Trial Attorney, Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division, 1990-93; counsel to Deputy Attorney General of U.S., 1993-94; special assistant to Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, 1994-95; Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Matters, 2001-02).

Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, 1997-2001.

Associate Independent Counsel, Office of the Independent Counsel, 1995-97.

Member, Executive Board, Washington/Baltimore High-Intensity Drug-Trafficking Area (chair, 2010-11). Core City U.S. Attorney, Mid-Atlantic Region, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1965. Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, B.S. (economics), summa cum laude, 1986; Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1989 (Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow, 1997). Law clerk to Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit, 1989-90. Admitted to Pennsylvania Bar, 1989; District of Columbia Bar, 1992; Maryland Bar, 2002. Partner, King & Spalding, LLC, 2020-. Member, American Bar Association; Federal Bar Association (board of governors, maryland chapter); Maryland State Bar Association. Board of Directors, Maryland State's Attorneys' Association. Barrister, Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court. Member, Lawyers' Round Table of Baltimore. Member, Wharton Club of District of Columbia; Harvard Law School Association of Maryland. Faculty, National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Intensive Session in Trial Advocacy Skills, Georgetown University Law Center, 2002-. Adjunct faculty, University of Maryland School of Law, 2006-11. Special Recognition Award, Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, 2006. Traphagen Distinguished Alumni Speaker, Harvard University School of Law, 2006. Maryland Leadership in Law Award, Daily Record, 2007. Fraud Fighter of the Year Award, Maryland Chapter, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, 2009. Howard (Pete) Rawlings Courage in Public Service Award, Greater Baltimore Committee, 2017.

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