Robert Higdon Jr.
| Robert J. Higdon Jr. | |
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| United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina | |
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Assumed office October 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
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| Education |
Wake Forest University Wake Forest University School of Law |
Robert J. Higdon Jr. is an American attorney who is currently serving as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Prior to assuming his current role, he was a partner at the law firm of Williams Mullen. Higdon was previously an Assistant U.S. Attorney in both the Western and Eastern Districts of North Carolina. In the Eastern District U.S. Attorney's Office, he served as Chief of the Criminal Division for more than 11 years, supervising and prosecuting criminal cases involving drug trafficking, terrorism, violent crime, white collar crime, and public corruption. Higdon also served as senior trial counsel in the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice. In 2012, he led the federal prosecution in a campaign finance fraud case involving John Edwards.
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