Vanessa R. Avery

Vanessa Roberts Avery (born 1974/1975) is an American lawyer who has served as the United States attorney for the District of Connecticut since 2022.

Vanessa Roberts Avery
United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut
Incumbent
Assumed office May 9, 2022
President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	John Durham
Personal details
Born	1974 or 1975 (age 49–50)[1]
Education	Yale University (BA) Georgetown University (JD)

Education

Avery received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1999.^[2]

Career

From 1999 to 2003, Avery was an attorney in the Hartford Trial Group at Cummings & Lockwood LLC. From 2004 to 2005, she served as a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division. From 2006 to 2014, she was a litigation attorney at McCarter & English. From 2014 to 2019, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut. From 2019 to 2022, she served as an associate attorney general in the Connecticut Attorney General's Office and as chief of the division of enforcement and public protection from 2021 to 2022.^[2]

U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut

On January 26, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Avery to be the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. Her nomination earned the praise of Connecticut Attorney General William Tong.^[3] On January 31, 2022, her nomination was sent to the United States Senate.^[4] On April 4, 2022, her nomination was favorably reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. On April 27, 2022, her nomination was confirmed in the Senate by voice vote.^[5] She became the first African-American woman to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut.^[6] She was sworn in on May 9, 2022.^[1]

References

1. "Vanessa Roberts Avery Sworn in as United States Attorney" (Press release). New Haven, Connecticut: U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut. May 9, 2022. Retrieved May 18, 2022.
2. "President Biden Announces Six New Nominees to Serve as U.S. Attorneys" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. January 26, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
3. "Biden nominates Associate Attorney General Vanessa Avery to be Connecticut U.S. Attorney". courant.com. January 26, 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
4. "Press Release: Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. January 31, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
5. "PN1701 - Nomination of Vanessa Roberts Avery for Department of Justice, 117th Congress (2021-2022)". www.congress.gov. April 4, 2022. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
6. Dixon, Ken (January 26, 2022). "New Haven native could become first Black female US attorney for CT". The Middletown Press. Retrieved January 26, 2022.

External links

• "Meet the U.S. Attorney: Vanessa Roberts Avery". Justice.gov. 24 February 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2022.

Legal offices
Preceded by John Durham	United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut 2022–present	Incumbent