Groom Named Acting U.S. Attorney for District
by January 12, 2009 12:00 am 141 views
Career prosecutor Deborah Groom, as first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, has been elevated to acting U.S. Attorney, filing the role vacated Jan. 4 by Robert C. Balfe.
Groom, 57, has been first assistant under Balfe since March 2007. She has been a federal prosecutor since 1983 and was named chief of the civil division in 1993.
Groom, who lives in Greenland, is a 1978 graduate of the University of Arkansas School of Law. She was a deputy prosecuting attorney in the state’s 12th Judicial District before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Balfe announced his resignation effective on Dec. 8.
Balfe joined Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard of Little Rock on Jan. 5 to lead its new government investigations, enforcement and white collar crime team. The firm has a Rogers office.
The firm said the practice will focus on white collar crime, government and internal corporate investigations, immigration, fraud, false claims and commercial litigation.