R. Trent Shores

R. Trent Shores is an American attorney who currently serves as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.[2]

R. Trent Shores
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma
Assumed office
September 21, 2017[1]
PresidentDonald Trump
Joe Biden
Preceded byDanny C. Williams Sr.
Personal details
Citizenship
  • Choctaw
  • United States
Political partyRepublican
EducationVanderbilt University
University of Oklahoma College of Law, (J.D.)

Education and career

Shores graduated with a political science degree from Vanderbilt University and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law.[3]

Prior to assuming his current role, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Oklahoma. Shores was the national security cyber specialist for the Northern District and prosecuted cases involving human trafficking and child exploitation, drug-trafficking organizations, public corruption, and white-collar crime.[3]

In March 2015, Scott Pruitt, the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma at the time, appointed Shores as his top Assistant Attorney General.[4] Three months later, Pruitt replaced Shores with Michael J. Hunter.[5] Within six months, Shores was back at the U.S. Attorney's Office as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Oklahoma.[6]

Shores previously served as the deputy director for the United States Department of Justice's Office of Tribal Justice, where he was active in tribal justice issues.[7][8]

Shores is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.[3]

On February 8, 2021, he along with 55 other Trump-era attorneys were asked to resign.[9]

References
  1. Killman, Curtis (September 21, 2017). "Trent Shores sworn in as U.S. Attorney for Northern District". Tulsa World. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  2. Simpson, Dav (September 14, 2017). "12 U.S. Attorneys Confirmed In Bulk Senate Vote - Law360". Law360. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  3. "Meet the U.S. Attorney". 2015-07-14. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  4. "Former assistant US attorney starting new job in AG's office". 2015-03-12. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  5. "Pruitt taps former GOP lawmaker as top assistant". 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  6. "Men of Distinction 2015: Trent Shores". 2015-12-18. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  7. "President Donald J. Trump Announces Second Wave of United States Attorney Candidate Nominations". The White House. June 29, 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  8. Krehbiel, Randy (June 29, 2017). "Trent Shores nominated for U.S. attorney for Northern District". Tulsa World. Tulsa World. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  9. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justice-dept-seeks-resignations-of-trump-era-us-attorneys/2021/02/08/f5b71648-6a88-11eb-a66e-e27046e9e898_story.html
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