List of Dismissed Attorneys
Seven attorneys were dismissed on December 7, 2006. Subsequent disclosures showed that two additional attorneys, Bud Cummins and Todd Graves, may have been dismissed under similar circumstances earlier in 2006. Bud Cummins is frequently associated with those dismissed on December 7 because he announced his resignation in mid-December, effective December 20, 2006. However, Cummins had been informed of his pending dismissal in June 2006. The dismissal of Cummins received significant attention from the media and from congressional investigators after Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty testified that his dismissal was requested from the White House in order to install Karl Rove protégé Timothy Griffin in his place. Both Todd Graves, and his replacement, Department of Justice official Bradley Schlozman, have been called to testify in the ongoing Senate investigation of the U.S. Attorney controversy.
Two U.S. Attorneys who were fired in 2005, Thomas M. DiBiagio and Kasey Warner, have made public statements claiming that there may be similarities between their dismissals and those of the nine attorneys fired in 2006. To date, their cases have received significantly less attention from the media in comparison to the attorneys fired in 2006.
| Dismissed U.S. Attorneys Summary ( ) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dismissed Attorney |
Effective Date of Resignation |
Federal District | Replacement1 | ||
| Dismissed December 7, 2006 | |||||
| 1. | David Iglesias | Dec 19, 2006 | New Mexico | Larry Gomez | |
| 2. | Kevin V. Ryan | Jan 16, 2007 | Northern California | Scott Schools | |
| 3. | John McKay | Jan 26, 2007 | Western Washington | Jeffrey C. Sullivan | |
| 4. | Paul K. Charlton | Jan 31, 2007 | Arizona | Daniel G. Knauss | |
| 5. | Carol Lam | Feb 15, 2007 | Southern California | Karen Hewitt | |
| 6. | Daniel Bogden | Feb 28, 2007 | Nevada | Steven Myhre | |
| 7. | Margaret Chiara | Mar 16, 2007 | Western Michigan | Russell C. Stoddard | |
| Others dismissed in 2006 | |||||
| 1. | Todd Graves | Mar 24, 20062 | Western Missouri | Bradley Schlozman6 | |
| 2. | Bud Cummins | Dec 20, 20063 | Eastern Arkansas | Timothy Griffin5 | |
| Dismissed in 2005 | |||||
| 1. | Thomas M. DiBiagio | Jan 2, 20054 | Maryland | Allen F. Loucks | |
| 2. | Kasey Warner | Jul 20054 | Southern W. Virginia | Charles T. Miller | |
| 1Source: Department of Justice, U.S. Attorneys Offices 2Informed of dismissal January 2006. |
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