page_title: United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey
section_title: Office holders
hierarchical_section_title: United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey / Office holders
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Frederick Frelinghuysen (1753-1804) Source en:New Jersey Historical Society http://bioguide.congress.gov/bioguide/photo/F/F000368.jpg
context_page_description: The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey is the chief federal law enforcement officer in New Jersey. On January 5, 2018, Craig Carpenito was appointed U.S. Attorney pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546 by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions. On April 27, 2018, the judges of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey unanimously appointed Carpenito U.S. Attorney pursuant to its statutory powers. The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney.
context_section_description: Richard Stockton (1789 – 1791)
  Abraham Ogden (1791 – 1798)
  Lucius Horatio Stockton (1798 – 1801)
  Frederick Frelinghuysen (1801)
  George C. Maxwell (1801 – 1803)
  William S. Pennington (1803 – 1804)
  Joseph McIlvaine (1804 – 1824)
  Lucius Q.C. Elmer (1824 – 1829)
  Garret D. Wall (1829 – 1835)
  James S. Green (1835 – 1850)
  William Halstead (1850 – 1853)
  Garret S. Cannon (1853 – 1861)
  Anthony Q. Keasbey (1861 – 1886)
  Job H. Lippincott (1886 – 1887)
  Samuel F. Bigelow (1887 – 1888)
  George S. Duryee (1888 – 1890)
  Henry S. White (1890 – 1894)
  John W. Beekman (1894 – 1896)
  J. Kearney Rice (1896 – 1900)
  David Ogden Watkins (1900 – 1903)
  Cortlandt Parker, Jr. (1903)
  John B. Vreeland (1903 – 1913)
  J. Warren Davis (1913 – 1916)
  Charles Francis Lynch (1916 – 1919)
  Joseph L. Bodine (1919 – 1920)
  Elmer H. Geran (1920 – 1922)
  Walter G. Winne (1922 – 1928)
  Phillip Forman (1928 – 1932)
  Harlan Besson (1932 – 1935)
  John J. Quinn (1935 – 1940)
  William F. Smith (1940 – 1941)
  Charles M. Phillips (1941 – 1943)
  Thorn Lord (1943 – 1945)
  Edgar H. Rossbach (1945 – 1948)
  Isaiah Matlack (1948)
  Alfred E. Modarelli (1948 – 1951)
  Grover C. Richman, Jr. (1951 – 1953)
  William F. Tompkins (1953 – 1954)
  Raymond Del Tufo, Jr. (1954 – 1956)
  Herman Scott (1956)
  Chester A. Weidenburner (1956 – 1961)
  David M. Satz, Jr. (1961 – 1969)
  Donald Horowitz (1969)
  Frederick B. Lacey (1969 – 1971)
  Herbert J. Stern (1971 – 1973)
  Jonathan L. Goldstein (1974 – 1977)
  Robert J. Del Tufo (1977 – 1980)
  William W. Robertson (1980 – 1981)
  W. Hunt Dumont (1981 – 1985)
  Thomas W. Greelish (1985 – 1987)
  Samuel Alito, Jr. (1987 – 1990)
  Michael Chertoff (1990 – 1994)
  Faith S. Hochberg (1994 – 1999)
  Robert J. Cleary (1999 – 2002)
  Christopher J. Christie (2002 – 2008)
  Ralph J. Marra, Jr. (2008 - 2009)
  Paul J. Fishman (2009–2017)
  William E. Fitzpatrick (2017-2018)
  Craig Carpenito (2018-Present)
caption: Frederick Frelinghuysen, former U.S. Attorney and former U.S. Senator
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