Wifredo Ferrer (gov)

Wifredo Ferrer (University of Miami, University of Pennsylvania Law School) is nominated to be U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. He would replace R. Alexander Acosta, who became the dean of Miami’s Florida International University Law School on July 1, 2009. The district’s current acting U.S. Attorney is Jeffrey H. Sloman.

Ferrer’s vitals:

• Born in Miami in 1966.
• Since 2006 has been an assistant count attorney and chief of the federal litigation section at the Miami-Dade County Attorney’s office.
• Worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney from 2000 to 2006 in the Southern District of Florida in Miami.
• Was counsel and deputy chief of staff to Attorney General Janet Reno at Justice Department headquarters in Washington, D.C., from 1995 to 2000.
• Was a White House fellow and special assistant to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros in Washington, D.C., from 1994 to 1995.
• Worked as an associate in the litigation department of Steel Hector & Davis (now Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP ^[1]) in Miami from 1991 to 1994.
• Clerked for then-District Court Judge Stanley Marcus in the Southern District of Florida from 1990 to 1991.
• Clerked for Steel Hector & Davis during the summer of 1989.
• Clerked for Greenberg Traurig LLP ^[2] in Miami during the summer of 1988.
• Has tried eight criminal cases to judgment, serving as lead counsel in seven of them and associate counsel in one. Also handled more than 20 evidentiary hearings in federal court.

Click here ^[3] for his full Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire.

UPDATE: On his Office of Government Ethics financial disclosure Ferrer reported earning a salary of $228,209 from the Miami-Dade County Attorney’s office. On his Senate Judiciary financial disclosure he reported assets of $1.83 million, mostly from three residences, and liabilities of $249,500, mostly from a mortgage, for a net worth of $1.58 million.