Thomas P. O'Brien '93, United States Attorney for the Central District of California
Thomas P. O’Brien, USD School of Law Class of ’93, was nominated to be the United States Attorney for the Central District of California by President George W. Bush on July 12, 2007. He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on October 4, 2007, and was sworn in as United States Attorney the next day. As the senior federal law enforcement official in the Central District of California, O’Brien is responsible for all federal criminal investigations and prosecutions, as well as all civil matters involving the United States, in the largest federal district in the country.
Mr. O’Brien graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1981, and from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1993, where he was an Associate Editor of the San Diego Law Review and received his degree with honors. He has accumulated 2,000 flight hours as a Radar Intercept Officer in the F-14 “Tomcat” fighter aircraft, and is a graduate of the United States Navy Fighter Weapons (“Top Gun”) School.
