Gregory J. Fouratt is the former United States Attorney

United States Attorney

United States Attorneys represent the United States federal government in United States district court and United States court of appeals. There are 93 U.S. Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands...

 for the District of New Mexico

New Mexico

New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

. Fouratt was appointed on January 25, 2008 by an administrative order issued by the U.S. Federal District Court of New Mexico. He succeeded Larry Gomez, a temporary appointee of Acting New Mexico Attorney General Peter D. Keisler, who had succeeded David Iglesias

David Iglesias (attorney)

David Claudio Iglesias is an American attorney from Albuquerque, New Mexico.He was appointed by President George W. Bush as the United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico in August 2001 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in October 2001. He served for 6 years. He was one of eight U.S...

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Biography

Fouratt, a career federal prosecutor, is a graduate of New Mexico State University

New Mexico State University

New Mexico State University at Las Cruces , is a major land-grant university in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States...

. He was also an officer in the U.S. Air Force and remains a member of the Air National Guard. He is a self-described specialist in the areas of racketeering, capital murder and gang related crimes.