Michele Beckwith Acting U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California
Eric Grant has been sworn in as the Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California. The ceremony was conducted by Chief United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley.
Grant was appointed to the position by Attorney General Pam Bondi, with his term beginning on August 11, 2025. He brings significant experience from his previous roles at the Department of Justice, where he served as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel from 1991 to 1993 and as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) from 2017 to 2021. While at ENRD, Grant supervised over one hundred litigators who represented federal interests in both civil and criminal matters.
“I am honored to rejoin the Department of Justice to lead an excellent team of lawyers and other public servants in our shared mission to enhance public safety and the rule of law in Northern California. I look forward to working with that team and with our federal, state, local, and tribal partners in law enforcement and otherwise to accomplish that mission,” U.S. Attorney Grant said.
Beyond his government service, Grant has spent decades practicing law privately in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento. His legal experience includes presenting arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, California Supreme Court, and various other courts across different jurisdictions.
Grant previously clerked for retired Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas during the Supreme Court’s October 1994 Term. He also served as a law clerk for Judge Edith H. Jones on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
A native of Modesto who raised his family in Sacramento County, Grant is an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned degrees in economics (1986) and law (1990).
The United States Attorney acts as chief federal law enforcement officer for a district covering 34 counties throughout California’s Central Valley and Sierra regions—from near Oregon’s border southward toward Los Angeles County—and oversees offices located in Sacramento, Fresno, and Bakersfield staffed by more than seventy attorneys alongside additional personnel.
