President Donald Trump has nominated Andrew Tysen Duva, a federal prosecutor based in Jacksonville, Fla., to lead the Justice Department’s criminal division, a critical role overseeing white collar and violent crime.
As an assistant US attorney in the Middle District of Florida—which covers Attorney General Pam Bondi’s hometown of Tampa—Duva prosecuted former Florida congresswoman Corrine Brown, a Democrat, a case that concluded with her guilty plea in 2022 on tax offenses.
Duva’s appointment came Wednesday in a White House announcement that didn’t specify he was selected to head the criminal division.
A separate congressional notice specifies the criminal division. His nomination is now subject to Senate approval.
The criminal division has experienced mass departures from its public corruption section after senior DOJ official Emil Bove—since confirmed by the Senate to a seat on the Third Circuit—ordered prosecutors to dismiss charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
Other senior officials and line attorneys in the criminal division were forced out or left voluntarily in the early months of the Trump administration as well.
The nomination of a line prosecutor breaks with a pattern of recent division leaders having higher-level government experience.
Duva earned a law degree from the University of Florida in 2002, according to his Florida Bar profile.
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