Who is Timothy Griffin, the US attorney that replaced Bud Cummins?

“In December 2006, Tim Griffin was named U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The Eastern District includes 41 Arkansas counties.

Tim recently completed a year of active duty in the U.S. Army. He is in his 10th year as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps and holds the rank of Major. In September 2005, Tim was mobilized to active duty to serve as an Army prosecutor at Fort Campbell , Kentucky , the home of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). At Fort Campbell , he prosecuted 40 criminal cases. One of those cases, U.S. v. Mikel, drew national interest after Private Mikel attempted to murder his platoon sergeant and fired upon his unit‚Äôs early morning formation. Private Mikel pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

In May 2006, Tim was assigned to the 501st Special Troops Battalion (STB), 101st Airborne Division and sent to serve in Iraq . From May through August 2006, he served as an Army JAG with the 101st Airborne Division in Mosul , Iraq , as a member of the 172d Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) Brigade Operational Law Team (BOLT), for which he was awarded the Combat Action Badge and the Army Commendation Medal.

When he was called to active duty in September 2005, Tim was serving as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director, Office of Political Affairs at the White House. In that capacity, he advised President George W. Bush and Vice-President Richard B. Cheney and organized and coordinated support for the President’s agenda, including the nomination of Judge John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

From 2001-2002, Tim served as an appointee at the U.S. Department of Justice where he was Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, Michael Chertoff, the Criminal Division Chief. In the summer of 2001, AAG Chertoff granted Tim a year detail as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas in Little Rock . While in Little Rock , Tim prosecuted a variety of federal cases with an emphasis on firearm and drug cases. He also organized the Eastern District‚Äôs Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), the Bush Administration’s initiative to reduce firearm-related violence by promoting close cooperation between state and federal law enforcement, and served as the PSN coordinator.

Tim served as Research Director and Deputy Communications Director for the Republican National Committee (RNC) during the 2004 presidential campaign and Deputy Research Director for the RNC during the 2000 presidential campaign. Tim has also served as Senior Counsel to the Government Reform Committee, U.S. House of Representatives; Associate Independent Counsel, In Re: Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Henry Cisneros; and as an associate attorney with the New Orleans law firm of Jones, Walker.

Tim is a member of the Arkansas and Louisiana bars. He is a cum laude graduate of both Hendrix College in Conway , Arkansas , where he received his B.A., and Tulane Law School in New Orleans , Louisiana , where he received his J.D. He also attended graduate school at Pembroke College , Oxford University , in Oxford , England . Tim was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, was raised in Magnolia, Arkansas, and now resides in Little Rock, Arkansas.”

Stellar resume. The only kick to the left is that he had served as Karl Rove’s assistant.

Just so you know.