The United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in 32 counties in the northern part of the State of New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. The current U.S. Attorney is Richard S. Hartunian who was nominated on December 23, 2009, by President Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 11, 2010, and sworn into office by District Court judge Glenn T. Suddaby

Glenn T. Suddaby

Glenn Thomas Suddaby is a United States federal judge.Born in Glen Falls, New York, Suddaby received a B.A. from State University of New York at Plattsburgh in 1980 and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1985. He was an Assistant district attorney of Onondaga County District...

 on February 19, 2010.

The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York

United States District Court for the Northern District of New York

The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York serves one of the 94 judicial districts in the United States and one of four in the state of New York. The U.S. Attorney for the district is Richard S. Hartunian...

 has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney. Its jurisdiction comprises the counties of Albany

Albany County, New York

Albany County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name is from the title of the Duke of York and Albany, who became James II of England . As of the 2010 census, the population was 304,204...

, Broome

Broome County, New York

Broome County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 200,600. It was named in honor of John Broome, who was lieutenant governor in 1806 when Broome County was established. Its county seat is Binghamton, which is also its major city. The current...

, Cayuga

Cayuga County, New York

Cayuga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It was named for one of the tribes of Indians in the Iroquois Confederation. Its county seat is Auburn.- History :...

, Chenango

Chenango County, New York

Chenango County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 50,477. The county's name originates from an Oneida word meaning "large bull-thistle." Its county seat is Norwich.-History:...

, Clinton

Clinton County, New York

Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 82,128. Its name is in honor of the first Governor of New York as a state, George Clinton. Its county seat is Plattsburgh.-History:...

, Columbia

Columbia County, New York

Columbia County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 63,096. The county seat is Hudson. The name comes from the Latin feminine form of the name of Christopher Columbus, which was at the time of the formation of the county a popular proposal...

, Cortland

Cortland County, New York

Cortland County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, named after Federico Van Cortlandt, president of the convention at Kingston that wrote the first New York State Constitution in 1777, and first lieutenant governor of the state. The county seat is Cortland...

, Delaware

Delaware County, New York

Delaware County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of 2010 the population was 47,980. The county seat is Delhi. It is named after the Delaware River, which was named in honor of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, appointed governor of Virginia in 1609.-History:When counties...

, Essex

Essex County, New York

Essex County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 39,370. Its name is from the English county of Essex. Its county seat is Elizabethtown...

, Franklin

Franklin County, New York

Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 51,599. It is named in honor of American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin...

, Fulton

Fulton County, New York

Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 55,531. Its name is in honor of Robert Fulton, who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat...

, Greene

Greene County, New York

Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Its name is in honor of the American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. Its county seat is Catskill...

, Hamilton

Hamilton County, New York

Hamilton County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is named after Alexander Hamilton, the only member of the New York State delegation who signed the United States Constitution in 1787 and later the first United States Secretary of the Treasury. Its county seat is Lake Pleasant...

, Herkimer

Herkimer County, New York

Herkimer County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It was created in 1791 north of the Mohawk River out of part of Montgomery County. As of the 2010 census, the population was 64,519. It is named after General Nicholas Herkimer, who died from battle wounds in 1777 after taking part...

, Jefferson

Jefferson County, New York

Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 116,229. It is named after Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America, and president at the time the county was created in 1805...

, Lewis

Lewis County, New York

As of the census of 2000, there were 26,944 people, 10,040 households, and 7,309 families residing in the county. The population density was 21 people per square mile . There were 15,134 housing units at an average density of 12 per square mile...

, Madison

Madison County, New York

Madison County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 73,442. It is named after James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America...

, Montgomery

Montgomery County, New York

As of the census of 2000, there were 49,708 people, 20,038 households, and 13,104 families residing in the county. The population density was 123 people per square mile . There were 22,522 housing units at an average density of 56 per square mile...

, Oneida

Oneida County, New York

Oneida County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 234,878. The county seat is Utica. The name is in honor of the Oneida, an Iroquoian tribe that formerly occupied the region....

, Onondaga

Onondaga County, New York

Onondaga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 467,026. The county seat is Syracuse.Onondaga County is part of the Syracuse, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area....

, Oswego

Oswego County, New York

Oswego County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 Census, the estimated population was 122,109. The City of Oswego and the Village of Pulaski serve as the dual county seats in a two shire system of government...

, Otsego

Otsego County, New York

Otsego County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. The 2010 population was 62,259. The county seat is Cooperstown. The name Otsego is from a Mohawk word meaning "place of the rock."-History:...

, Rensselaer

Rensselaer County, New York

Rensselaer County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 159,429. Its name is in honor of the family of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the original Dutch owner of the land in the area. Its county seat is Troy...

, Saratoga

Saratoga County, New York

Saratoga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 219,607. It is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat is Ballston Spa...

, Schenectady

Schenectady County, New York

Schenectady County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 154,727. It is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat is Schenectady. The name is from a Mohawk Indian word meaning "on the other side of the...

, Schoharie

Schoharie County, New York

As of the census of 2000, there were 31,582 people, 11,991 households and 8,177 families residing in the county. The population density was 51 people per square mile . There were 15,915 housing units at an average density of 26 per square mile...

, St. Lawrence

St. Lawrence County, New York

St. Lawrence County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 111,944. The county seat is Canton. The county is named for the Saint Lawrence River, which in turn was named for the Catholic saint on whose Feast day the river was discovered by...

, Tioga

Tioga County, New York

As of the census of 2010, there were 51,125 people residing in the county, with 22,203 housing units, of these 20,350 occupied, 1,853 vacant. The population density was 98 people per square mile...

, Tompkins

Tompkins County, New York

Tompkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and comprises the whole of the Ithaca metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 101,564. The county seat is Ithaca, and the county is home to Cornell University, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community...

, Ulster

Ulster County, New York

Ulster County is a county located in the state of New York, USA. It sits in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 182,493. Recent population estimates completed by the United States Census Bureau for the 12-month period ending July 1 are at...

, Warren

Warren County, New York

Warren County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Glens Falls, New York, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 65,707. It is named in honor of General Joseph Warren, an American Revolutionary War hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill...

, and Washington

Washington County, New York

Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Glens Falls, New York, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 63,216. It was named for the Revolutionary War general George Washington...

.

The court has offices in Albany

Albany, New York

Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...

, Binghamton

Binghamton, New York

Binghamton is a city in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers...

, Plattsburgh, Syracuse

Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, the largest U.S. city with the name "Syracuse", and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its metropolitan area had a population of 742,603...

 and Utica

Utica, New York

Utica is a city in and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 62,235 at the 2010 census, an increase of 2.6% from the 2000 census....

. The court also holds court at facilities in Watertown.

History

The original District of New York, established in 1789, was divided in 1814 into the Southern

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is a federal district court. Appeals from the Southern District of New York are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case...

 and the Northern Districts. In 1900, the Western District

United States District Court for the Western District of New York

The United States District Court for the Western District of New York is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises only a part of New York....

, comprising 17 counties, was split off from the Northern District.

List of U.S. Attorneys for the Northern District of New York

• Roger Skinner
  Roger Skinner
  Roger Skinner was a lawyer, statesman and United States federal judge from New York.Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, he was an attorney in private practice both in Connecticut and New York. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1808 to 1810...
  
  : 1815 - 1819
• Jacob Sutherland: 1819 - 1823
• Samuel Beardsley
  Samuel Beardsley
  Samuel Beardsley was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...
  
  : 1823 - 1831
• Nathaniel S. Benton
  Nathaniel S. Benton
  Nathaniel Seley Benton was a New York politician who served as a New York State Senator and Secretary of State of New York....
  
  : 1831 - 1841
• Joshua A. Spencer: 1841 - 1845
• William F. Allen
  William F. Allen (New York)
  William Fitch Allen was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...
  
  : 1845 - 1847
• George W. Clinton: 1847 - 1850
• James R. Lawrence: 1850 - 1853
• Henry A. Foster
  Henry A. Foster
  Henry Allen Foster was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a United States Senator from 1844 to 1845.-Life:His family moved to Cazenovia, New York when he was a boy...
  
  : 1853 (nominated and confirmed, but declined to take office)
• John B. Skinner: 1853 (nominated and confirmed, but declined to take office)
• Samuel B. Garvin
  Samuel B. Garvin
  Samuel Bostwick Garvin was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...
  
  : 1853 - 1857
• James Clark Spencer: 1857 - 1861
• William A. Dart: 1861 - ?
• William Dorsheimer
  William Dorsheimer
  William Dorsheimer was an American lawyer, journalist and politician.-Life:...
  
  : 1867 - 1871
• Richard Crowley
  Richard Crowley
  Richard Crowley was a United States Representative from New York. He was born in Pendleton, New York. He attended the public schools and Lockport Union School. Later, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Lockport, New York.Crowley was the city attorney of...
  
  : 1871 - 1879
• Martin I. Townsend
  Martin I. Townsend
  Martin Ingham Townsend was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...
  
  : 1879 - 1886
• Daniel N. Lockwood
  Daniel N. Lockwood
  Daniel Newton Lockwood was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He graduated from Union College in 1865. Then he studied law, was admitted to the New York bar in 1866, and commenced practice in Buffalo, New York...
  
  : 1886 - 1889
• De Alva S. Alexander
  De Alva S. Alexander
  De Alva Stanwood Alexander was an American journalist, lawyer, historian, and member of the United States House of Representatives....
  
  : 1889 - 1893
• William A. Poucher: 1893 - 1897
• Emory P. Close: 1897 - 1899
• Charles H. Brown: 1899 - 1900
• George B. Curtiss: 1900 - 1913
• John H. Gleason: 1913 - 1916
• Dennis B. Lucey: 1916 - 1921
• Clarence E. Williams: 1921
• Hiram C. Todd: 1921 - 1922
• Earle Gallufo: 1922
• Benjamin C. Mead: 1922 - 1923
• Oliver D. Burden: 1923 - 1936
• Ralph L. Emmons: 1936 - 1943
• Irving J. Higbee: 1943 - 1951
• Edmund Port
  Edmund Port
  Edmund Port was a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. Judge Port graduated from Syracuse University College of Law with an LL.B. in 1929. He was United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York from 1951 to 1953. He was nominated to the...
  
  : 1951 - 1953
• Anthony F. Caffrey: 1953
• Theodore F. Bowes: 1953 - 1961
• Justin J. Mahoney: 1961 - 1969
• James M. Sullivan, Jr.: 1969
• Samuel T. Betts III: 1969 - 1973
• James M. Sullivan, Jr.: 1973 - 1976
• Paul V. French: 1976 - 1978
• George H. Lowe: 1978 - 1982
• Gustave J. DiBianco: 1982
• Frederick J. Scullin, Jr.: 1982 - 1992
• Gary L. Sharpe
  Gary L. Sharpe
  Gary Lawrence Sharpe is a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. Judge Sharpe graduated from the University at Buffalo with a B.A. in 1971 and Cornell Law School with a J.D. in 1974. He was United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York from...
  
  : 1992 - 1994
• Thomas J. Maroney: 1994 - ?
• Glenn T. Suddaby
  Glenn T. Suddaby
  Glenn Thomas Suddaby is a United States federal judge.Born in Glen Falls, New York, Suddaby received a B.A. from State University of New York at Plattsburgh in 1980 and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1985. He was an Assistant district attorney of Onondaga County District...
  
  : 2002 - 2008
• Andrew T. Baxter (Acting): 2008 - 2010
• Richard S. Hartunian: 2010 - present