Thomas Gray Walker is the 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 Eastern District of North Carolina

United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

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Early life and education

Walker was born in 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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. Walker graduated from Baylor University

Baylor University

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 (1986) and the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law

Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law

The Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law is a private law school located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1976, the law school is one of six graduate programs offered by Campbell University...

 at Campbell University

Campbell University

Campbell University is a coeducational, church-related university in rural North Carolina, USA. Its main campus is located in the community of Buies Creek; its law school moved from Buies Creek to a new campus in the state capital of Raleigh in 2009. Campbell has an approximately equal number of...

 (1990).

Career

At the time of his confirmation in 2011, Walker was a partner at Alston & Bird

Alston & Bird

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, LLP, where he had worked since 2003. Prior to that, Walker worked as special counsel to North Carolina Attorney General

North Carolina attorney general

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 Roy A. Cooper

Roy A. Cooper

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, from 2001 to 2003. He also served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina

United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

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 from 1994 to 2001 and an Assistant District Attorney for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

-Air:The county's primary commercial aviation airport is Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte.- Intercity rail :With twenty-five freight trains a day, Mecklenburg is a freight railroad transportation center, largely due to its place on the NS main line between Washington and Atlanta...

, from 1990 to 1994.