Karin J. Immergut is the United States Attorney for the District
of Oregon. She was sworn in as interim United States Attorney
on October 3, 2003 and the United States Senate confirmed her
nomination on that same date. President George W. Bush signed
her commission to serve as the United States Attorney for the
District of Oregon on October 4, 2003 and she was sworn in as
the United States Attorney on October 8, 2003.
As U.S. Attorney, Ms. Immergut serves as the district's top
federal law enforcement official. She manages a staff of approximately
107 people, including 51 Assistant U.S. Attorneys, who handle
civil litigation on behalf of the United States and criminal
investigations and prosecutions involving violations of federal
law such as white collar crime, narcotics trafficking, violent
crime, money laundering and cybercrime. In addition, U.S. Attorney
Immergut currently serves on the Attorney General's Advisory
Committee.
Prior to her appointment as United States Attorney, Ms. Immergut
served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Oregon
for two years, during which she prosecuted cases involving white
collar crime and worked on Project Safe Neighborhoods, a national
gun violence reduction initiative. Ms. Immergut also served
as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District
of California, Los Angeles for six years. During her tenure
in the Central District of California, Ms. Immergut prosecuted
several large-scale complex narcotics and money laundering cases
and served as a Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Section and Chief
of the Training Section.
Ms. Immergut also served for five years as a Deputy District
Attorney in Portland, Oregon, where she primarily prosecuted
white collar crimes. She has also worked as a litigation associate
at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington D.C.
and Gravel & Shea in Burlington, Vermont. She graduated
from Amherst College in 1982 and received her law degree in
1987 from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California,
Berkeley. Ms. Immergut is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y.
