PERSON: John Walsh

Department of Justice

Colorado U.S. Attorney

John F. Walsh (born May 28, 1961) is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado from 2010 to 2016. Walsh was nominated by President Barack Obama on April 14, 2010, and sworn in on August 16, 2010. When he stepped down in 2016, Walsh was the longest-serving U.S. attorney in Colorado history.

Walsh attended Cherry Creek High School, a public high school in the Cherry Creek School District. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for one year before transferring to Williams College, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. degree in political science.

Walsh graduated with a JD from Stanford Law School in 1986. Walsh graduated Order of the Coif and with honors. He was the senior notes editor of the Stanford Law Review and president of the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation.

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