Nashville's Acting U.S. Attorney Wants to Get Back to Courtroom - Articles

All Content

Nashville's Acting U.S. Attorney Wants to Get Back to Courtroom

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 20, 2025

Rob McGuire inherited the role of acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee through a series of events he says he never anticipated. Henry Leventis, who led the office for nearly two years, announced last September that he would resign ahead of the presidential election. Tom Jaworski took over as the district’s acting U.S. attorney and asked McGuire to be his deputy. A few months later, Jaworski announced his own departure and McGuire took the helm of the office. “Here I am, kind of the accidental acting U.S. attorney,” McGuire told the Nashville Banner. But he has no plans to remain in the role. McGuire says he wants to get back to spending more of his time in the courtroom. “If you are a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney, it’s a four-year term, it’s at the pleasure of the president, and then when it’s over, you have to leave the Department of Justice. I don’t want to leave the Department of Justice.”