Though he has the backing of the local legal and law enforcement community, Walt Green announced this morning that he has submitted his resignation, effective March 10, as U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana.
Green is one of 46 Obama-era U.S. attorneys whom Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked to resign on Friday, in order to ensure a “uniform transition.”
In a statement released this morning, Green thanked his staff and law enforcement.
“With over twenty‐seven years as a United States Marine and twenty years as a member of the Department of Justice, I will treasure all my memories of public service to this great nation,” Green’s statement says.
This past weekend, East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III and more than two dozen sheriffs, district attorneys and police chiefs penned a letter in support of Green, calling him a loyal public servant and a patriot, according to several local news reports.
Green, a graduate of LSU and Tulane Law School, was confirmed as U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana in May 2014. He was sworn-in on June 2 of the same year.
The Middle District comprises nine parishes: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee and St. Helena.
Louisiana’s other two U.S. Attorneys—Kenneth Polite in the Eastern District and Stephanie Finley in the Western District—announced their resignation on Friday. Finley is retiring after 25 years of federal service.
It’s customary for a new presidential administration to appoint its own U.S. attorneys, but some have criticized President Donald Trump’s administration for the abrupt nature of the order.
