President Donald Trump has named Nancy E. Larson, a career federal prosecutor, as the Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
Larson, who is the daughter of a New York City police officer and the granddaughter of an IRS special agent, has served various roles in the U.S. Department of Justice since 1991, including serving as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Dallas and Fort Worth prosecuting financial services, corporate fraud and embezzlement schemes, money laundering and Ponzi schemes for the past two-dozen years.
The presidential appointment officially took place Thursday.
The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas oversees more than 80 prosecutors enforcing federal laws over 96,000 square miles in North Texas from Amarillo and Lubbock to Abilene and Wichita Falls.
“It is the honor of a lifetime to lead the office where I have spent my career representing the United States,” Larson said in a written statement issued Friday. “As our district’s chief federal prosecutor, I will work relentlessly to implement the priorities of the President and the Attorney General and to protect our communities from criminals.”