ATLANTA – Two more U.S. attorneys from Georgia are resigning ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration later this month.
Peter Leary, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, will step down effective Saturday, while Jill Steinberg, his counterpart for the Southern District of Georgia, will be leaving effective Jan. 17.
Ryan Buchanan, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, announced last week that he would be stepping down effective Jan. 19.
Leary, who will be joining an Atlanta law firm, began his federal career in 2007 working on complex civil litigation before he joined the U.S attorney’s office as a prosecutor in 2012.
Raised in Watkinsville, he received undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia, then clerked for U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson in the Macon-based Middle District.
Steinberg began serving as a U.S. attorney in Savannah in 2023. Before that, she was an assistant U.S. attorney and deputy criminal chief in the Atlanta-based U.S. attorneys’ office and in Washington, D.C., served as associate deputy U.S. attorney general.
In private practice, Steinberg was a partner at Ballard Spahr LLP and an associate at Rogers & Hardin LLP, both in Atlanta.
She earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Georgia and a law degree from Duke University.