TheUnited States attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee is the chief federal law enforcement officer in forty-oneTennessee counties. TheU.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. attorney.Doug Overbey, who was appointed by PresidentDonald Trump in 2017, is the current U.S. attorney for the District.
The office is headquartered inKnoxville, and maintains staffed offices inGreeneville andChattanooga, and an unstaffed office inWinchester.[1]
The Knoxville Division handles cases from fourteen counties:Anderson,Blount,Campbell,Claiborne,Grainger,Jefferson,Knox,Loudon,Monroe,Morgan,Roane,Scott,Sevier, andUnion.
The Chattanooga Division handles cases from nine counties:Bledsoe,Bradley,Hamilton,McMinn,Marion,Meigs,Polk,Rhea, andSequatchie.
The Winchester Division handles cases from eight counties:Bedford,Coffee,Franklin,Grundy,Lincoln,Moore,Van Buren, andWarren.
The Greeneville Division handles cases from ten counties:Carter,Cocke,Greene,Hamblen,Hancock,Hawkins,Johnson,Sullivan,Unicoi, andWashington.
List of U.S. attorneys for the Eastern District of Tennessee
[edit]- Edward Scott, 1805–1807[2]
- James Temble, 1807–1808
- Hugh Lawson White, 1808–1809
- James Temble, 1809–1810
- John McCampbell, 1810–1821
- Pryor Lea, 1821–1828
- John A. McKinney, 1828–1840
- George W. Churchill, 1840–1843
- Crawford W. Hall, 1843–1844
- Thomas C. Lyon, 1844–1850
- Samuel R. Rodgers, 1850–1853
- J. C. Ramsey, 1853
- Richard J. Hays, 1853–1857
- J. C. Ramsey, 1857–1861
- John L. Hopkins, 1861
- John M. Fleming, 1861
- E. C. Camp, 1869–1876
- George Andrews, 1876–1879
- Xenophon Wheeler, 1879–1883
- James M. Meek, 1883–1885
- James C. J. Williams, 1885–1889
- Hugh B. Lindsay, 1889–1893
- James H. Bible, 1893–1897
- James E. Mayfield, 1897
- William D. Wright, 1897–1905
- James R. Penland, 1905–1910
- James B. Cox, 1910–1913
- Lewis M. Coleman, 1913–1917
- Wesley T. Kennerly, 1917–1921
- George C. Taylor, 1921–1928
- Everett Greer, 1928–1930
- William J. Carter, 1930–1933
- James B. Frazier Jr., 1933–1948
- Otto T. Ault, 1948–1953
- John H. Reddy, 1953
- John C. Crawford Jr., 1953–1961
- John H. Reddy, 1961–1969
- Robert E. Simpson, 1969
- John L. Bowers Jr., 1969–1977
- Robert E. Simpson, 1977
- John H. Cary, 1977–1981
- William T. Dillard, 1981
- John W. Gill Jr., 1981–1991
- Jerry G. Cunningham, 1991–1993
- David G. Dake, 1993
- Guy W. Blackwell, 1993
- Carl K. Kirkpatrick, 1993–2001
- James R. Dedrick, 2001[3]
- Harry Sandlin Mattice Jr., 2001–2005[3]
- James R. Dedrick, 2005–2010[4]
- Greg Sullivan, 2010[4]
- William C. Killian, 2010-2015
- Nancy Stallard Harr, 2016-2017[5]
- Doug Overbey, 2017-2021
- Francis "Trey" Hamilton III, 2021-Present
