Jack Smith (lawyer)
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Jack Smith | |
|---|---|
| United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee | |
Acting | |
| In office March 14, 2017 – September 21, 2017 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | David Rivera |
| Succeeded by | Donald Q. Cochran |
| Personal details | |
| Education | State University of New York, Oneonta (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
John L. "Jack" Smith is an American attorney who has served in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
Smith is from Clay, New York. He graduated from Harvard Law School and joined the New York County District Attorney's office in 1994 after graduation. He then joined the United States Attorney's office in Brooklyn, where he prosecuted the police officers who sodomized Abner Louima. From 2008 to 2010 he worked for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, overseeing war crime investigations.[1] In 2010, Smith was put in charge of the DOJ's Public Integrity Section.[2] He spent five years as chief of the PIS, where he prosecuted Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, U.S. Representative Rick Renzi, and New York Assemblymember Sheldon Silver. He became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Middle District of Tennessee. He became the acting United States Attorney at the beginning of the presidency of Donald Trump, succeeding David Rivera, and resigned effective September 2017 after the nomination of Donald Q. Cochran.[3]
Smith became the vice president and head of litigation for Hospital Corporation of America in 2017.[4] He was named the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, investigating war crimes committed in Kosovo.[5][6] He prosecuted Salih Mustafa.[7]
On November 18, 2022, United States Attorney General Merrick Garland named Smith special counsel to investigate Donald Trump's actions regarding the January 6 United States Capitol attack and taking classified documents to Mar-a-Lago.[6][8]
References
- ^ "Who is Jack Smith..."
- ^ "DOJ's elite Public Integrity unit gets new leader". San Diego Union-Tribune. August 30, 2010.
- ^ "Jack Smith to resign from Nashville federal prosecutor's office". Tennessean.com. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
- ^ "US Prosecutor Jack Smith appointed Specialist Prosecutor". Kosovo Specialist Chambers & Specialist Prosecutor's Office. May 4, 2018.
- ^ "Jack Smith". www.justice.gov. April 13, 2015.
- ^ a b Duster, Chandelis (November 18, 2022). "Who is Jack Smith, the special counsel named in the Trump investigations | CNN Politics". CNN.
- ^ Berg, Stephanie van den (September 15, 2021). "Ex-rebel denies war crimes as Kosovo tribunal starts first trial" – via www.reuters.com.
- ^ "Garland names Jack Smith special counsel for Trump criminal probes". POLITICO.