Georgia has a new U.S. attorney, after the federal judges for the Northern District of Georgia appointed Theodore S. Hertzberg to lead the district office Monday.

Hertzberg had been serving as an interim lead after U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi appointed him to that role in May. He succeeded Richard Moultrie Jr., who took the job on an acting basis after then-U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan resigned in January at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.

Hertzberg previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for nearly 10 years, working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia in Savannah, then moving to Atlanta in 2018.

He has prosecuted gang leaders, child sex predators, gun traffickers and armed felons, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Before becoming a federal prosecutor, Hertzberg practiced law in the New York office of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP and served as a law clerk to Judge Kristi K. DuBose of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. He graduated from Amherst College and the New York University School of Law.

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