ATLANTA – U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has appointed Theodore S. Hertzberg to serve as interim U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, Bondi’s office announced Wednesday.
Hertzberg previously worked as an assistant U.S. attorney for nearly 10 years, beginning with a stint at the Southern District of Georgia’s Savannah office. His duties there included prosecuting violent criminals, drug dealers, fraudsters, and money launderers while also serving as chief of the asset forfeiture section.
After moving to Atlanta in 2018, Hertzberg transferred to the Northern District of Georgia, where he prosecuted gang leaders, child sex predators, gun traffickers, armed felons, and other dangerous offenders.
Before entering the Justice Department, he practiced law in the New York office of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, and served as a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Hertzberg is a graduate of Amherst College and New York University School of Law.
He succeeds Richard Moultrie Jr., who took the job on an acting basis after then-U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan resigned in January at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.