Tessa M. Gorman

Tessa M. Gorman
United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 16, 2024
PresidentJoe Biden
United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington
Acting
Assumed office
June 23, 2023
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byNicholas W. Brown
In office
March 1, 2021 – October 8, 2021
Preceded byBrian T. Moran
Succeeded byNicholas W. Brown
Personal details
Born1970 or 1971 (age 53–54)[1]
Ukiah, California, U.S.[1]
EducationYale University (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (JD)

Tessa M. Gorman (born 1970/1971) is an American lawyer from Washington who is the United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington. In January 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Gorman to the position, after she had served as Acting United States Attorney for six months.[2] In May 2024, the judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington appointed Gorman to continue as the United States Attorney for the district.[3]

Gorman previously served as Acting United States Attorney in 2021. She served as Criminal Chief for the office from 2013 to 2019, and in 2019, she was named First Assistant United States Attorney.[4] Gorman began her legal career in 1998 as an attorney in the Department of Justice's prestigious Honors Program.[5]

In 2018, with the support of Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, President Donald Trump announced that he planned to nominate Gorman to become a United States district judge of the same court, but the nomination was never submitted to the U.S. Senate due to the Washington senators' opposition to the White House's Ninth Circuit nominee.[6]

  1. ^ a b "White House Announces Nominees to U.S. District Court for Western District of Washington" (PDF) (Press release). United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. July 16, 2018. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
  2. ^ https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/tessa-m-gorman-sworn-us-attorney-western-district-washington
  3. ^ https://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/sites/wawd/files/05092024GOAppointingTessaGorman.pdf
  4. ^ https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/meet-us-attorney#:~:text=Tessa%20M.,Acting%20U.S.%20Attorney%20(2021).
  5. ^ https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/meet-us-attorney#:~:text=Tessa%20M.,Acting%20U.S.%20Attorney%20(2021).
  6. ^ https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-10-18%20CEG%20to%20Murray,%20Cantwell%20-%20Eric%20D.%20MIller%20Nomination.pdf