COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — Adair Ford Boroughs was officially sworn in today as the United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina. U.S. Attorney Boroughs was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden on June 6, 2022, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. on July 21, 2022. United States District Judge Richard M. Gergel swore in the U.S. Attorney Boroughs at the party. at the state courthouse in Charleston. An investiture ceremony will be held later.
“I am very pleased and honored to return to the Department of Justice as the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina,” said U.S. Attorney Boroughs. “The team at the U.S. Attorney’s Office. is incredibly talented, dedicated, and committed to this mission. I look forward to digging in and working with them, along with our law enforcement partners and our community, to protect and serve the citizens of the State of South Carolina and to seek justice and fairness in all that we do. ”
U.S. The Boroughs Attorney is the chief federal law enforcement officer responsible for criminal prosecutions and civil cases involving the United States in the District of South Carolina. He oversees an office of approximately 61 United States attorneys, 75 support staff, and 13 contract support staff. This office prosecutes crimes affecting the county, including drug and firearms cases, gang violence, human trafficking, white-collar crime, fraud, public corruption, terrorism and civil rights violations. . The office also defends the United States in civil lawsuits and collects debts owed to the United States.
Prior to being certified as a U.S. Attorney, Boroughs was a partner at Boroughs Bryant, LLC where he handled complex litigation and provided strategic advice to clients. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Executive Director of Charleston Legal Access, a non-profit, advocacy law firm that he helped found to address the justice gap in South Carolina. From 2013 to 2017, Boroughs clerked for Judge Gergel, where he worked on several high-profile cases including United States v. Dylan Roof, where the defendant was convicted of killing nine black members during a prayer meeting at the historic Charleston Emanuel AME. the church. Boroughs began his legal career in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Washington, D.C. as part of the Attorney General’s Honors Program, serving from 2007 to 2013. While there, he handled complex civil cases across the country, earning awards for himself. probation and mentoring work for new attorneys, and served on the Assistant Attorney General’s Diversity Committee where he led work on reforming the Department’s hiring practices. Before law school, Boroughs taught high school math in South Carolina public schools.
Boroughs received his J.D., with distinction, from Stanford Law School in 2007 and his B.S. in Mathematics, summa cum laude, from Furman University in 2002. He is a 2001 Harry S. Truman Scholar.
For more information about the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina, please visit https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc.
