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| Name | Matthew D. Orwig |
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| Info | n December 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Matt Orwig as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas. Orwig had been chosen for the position by Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and Phil Gramm in September, 2001. On April 12, 2002, Orwig was confirmed by the full Senate.
As United States Attorney for the Eastern District, Matt oversees federal prosecution in an area encompassing 43 counties, stretching from the Red River on Texas' northern border, circling around the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, and continuing down the length of the state's eastern border to the Gulf of Mexico. His staff includes more than 40 Assistant United States Attorneys, housed in Matt's headquarters, Beaumont, as well as in offices in Tyler, Plano, Sherman, Lufkin, and Texarkana. Among his many honors and responsibilities as U.S. Attorney, Matt has had the tremendous privilege of being selected to sit on Attorney General John Ashcroft's Advisory subcommittees on Terrorism and National Security and White Collar Fraud.
Matt grew up in Lubbock, Texas. He graduated from Texas Tech University (1981), and the Texas Tech School of Law in 1984. He began his career serving a judicial clerkship for federal judge Halbert O. Woodward, who was Chief Judge for the Northern District of Texas. Following his clerkship, Matt entered private practice and became a partner in a civil law firm. In 1989 he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas. In 1997, Matt was tapped to serve as legal counsel in the Executive Office for United States Attorneys in Washington, D.C. In that position, Matt advised presidential appointees and wrote speeches for then Attorney General Janet Reno and others. Upon returning to Texas, Orwig accepted the position of lead civil enforcement attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas.
In his 14 years with the Department of Justice, Matt Orwig has prosecuted complex white collar fraud cases, defended medical malpractice cases, and served on the faculty of the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C. and the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina. Matt has also served as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas and Texas Wesleyan Law School, Fort Worth, Texas. He was also a principal author of the Dallas Ethics Code which has been adopted by the Dallas City Council.
Matt and his wife, Melissa, a public school teacher, live in Beaumont with their three children: Joshua, 18, Rachel, 16 and Jacob, 13.
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