John A. Horn

John A. Horn
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia
In office
January 2015 – October 2017
President Barack Obama
Donald Trump
Preceded by Sally Yates
Succeeded by Byung J. Pak
Personal details
Alma mater University of Virginia (J.D.)
College of William and Mary

John A. Horn is an American attorney. Currently with the law firm King & Spalding, he is a former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.[1][2] During his 15-year tenure with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta, Horn served as deputy chief of the Narcotics & Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, then Appellate Division chief and first assistant U.S. attorney under Sally Yates.[3] Horn became acting U.S. attorney after then-President Barack Obama nominated Yates as Deputy Attorney General.[4] When Horn's term expired in December 2015, the judges of the Northern District of Georgia issued a court order officially naming him as U.S. Attorney for the district.[4] The court order bypassed the Senate confirmation process, allowing Horn to serve as U.S. Attorney until the President nominated, and the Senate confirmed, his successor.

Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's Office in 2002, Horn was an associate in the special matters group at King & Spalding.[3] Before that, Horn clerked for Judge Harold L. Murphy of the Northern District of Georgia, and for Stanley F. Birch, Jr. of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He obtained his undergraduate degree at William and Mary, and his J.D. in 1996 from the University of Virginia School of Law.

References

  1. ↑ "Former U.S. Attorneys for the Northern District of Georgia | USAO-NDGA | Department of Justice". www.justice.gov. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
  2. ↑ "https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/12/07/john-horn-named-u-s-attorney-for-the-northern.html". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-03-24. External link in |title= (help)
  3. 1 2 "John Horn Joins King & Spalding's Growing Ranks of Ex-US Attorneys | Daily Report". Daily Report. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  4. 1 2 "John Horn Bids Farewell as U.S. Attorney in Atlanta | Daily Report". Daily Report. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
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