United States Attorney Laurie Magid
Laurie Magid serves as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The United States Attorney’s Office, located in Philadelphia, is comprised of over 250 attorneys and support staff, and has jurisdiction over nine counties with five million residents. As United States Attorney, Ms. Magid supervises the prosecution of all federal crimes, and the litigation of civil matters in which the federal government has an interest. Before serving as United States Attorney, Ms. Magid served, from 2005 to 2008, as the First Assistant United Sates Attorney, and, from 2001 to 2005, as the Deputy United States Attorney. She was appointed by the Attorney General to the Department of Justice’s Appellate Chiefs’ Working Group.
Before joining the Department of Justice in 2001, Ms. Magid served as an Assistant District Attorney in Delaware County for four years and as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia for nine years. She also served for five years, by appointment of Governor Thomas Ridge, as a Commissioner on the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing.
Ms. Magid taught, over the course of thirteen years, at Villanova Law School, Temple Law School, and Widener Law School. She has published widely on criminal law issues in the Columbia, Michigan, Houston, Ohio State, Wayne, and San Diego Law Reviews. She has presented on ethical and constitutional issues at the National Institute of Justice Conference on Sentencing Reform, and for the National Association of Women Judges and the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association.
Ms. Magid graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 with a B.S in Economics, magna cum laude. In 1985, she earned her J.D. at the Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar and a Notes and Comments Editor for the Columbia Law Review. From 1985 to 1986, she served as a clerk for the Honorable James Hunter III on the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Ms. Magid and her husband, Jeffrey Miller, live in Philadelphia with their three children.
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