Christopher A. Crofts (University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming College of Law) has been nominated to replace Kelly Rankin as the U.S. Attorney for Wyoming.

His vitals:

• Born in Lander, Wyo., in 1942.
• Attended the University of Virginia in 1985 while in the FBI Academy.
• Attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism during the summer of 1969.
• Attended the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Criminology during the fall of 1962.
• Has served as counsel to Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D-Wyo.) since June 2006.
• Was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the district from August 1990 to June 2006. Simultaneously was detailed to the Justice Department’s Office of Overseas Prosecution Development and Training in Iraq from November 2005 to June 2006.
• Worked as the director of the division of criminal investigation in the Office of the Attorney General from July 1981 to August 1990.
• Served as a legal adviser in the division of criminal investigation in the Office of the Attorney General from March, 1978 to July, 1981.
• Was a part-time county judge in Fremont County, Wyo.,  from August 1976 to March 1978.
• Worked as an associate at Hamilton and Hursh, P.C. in Riverton, Wyo., from January 1975 to August 1976.
• Was an associate at the law firm led by Elmer C. Winters, who died in 1987.
• Worked as a part-time city attorney in Lander, Wyo.
• Was an English-social studies teacher at Laramie Junior High School in Laramie, Wyo., during the 1969-1971 school years.
• Was an active duty Army Officer from March 1965 to May 1969. Was in the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at the University of Wyoming. Received an honorable discharge at the rank of captain.
• Tried approximately 40 to 50 cases to trial, serving as sole counsel on almost all of the cases.

Click here for his full Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire.

UPDATE: On his Senate Judiciary financial disclosure Crofts reported assets of $4.6 million (mostly from an undeveloped plot his owns valued at $3.5 million). He has $2,500 in liabilities in the form of secured notes payable to banks. Crofts has a net worth of $4.6 million.

On his Office of Government Ethics disclosure he reported earning a $127,550 salary from his job in the governor’s office. This salary covers 2008 and most of 2009.

Less than two weeks after their Nov. 30 nominations, the Senate Judiciary Committee has released questionnaires completed by the four would-be U.S. Attorneys.

Here they are:

• Christopher A. Crofts, District of Wyoming. Click here.
• Thomas Walker, Eastern District of North Carolina. Click here.
• James L. Santelle, Eastern District of Wisconsin. Click here.
• Barbara L. McQuade, Eastern District of Michigan. Click here.

The nominees’ questionnaires from the Office of Government Ethics have yet to be posted. We will update with the nominees’ financial information when it becomes available.

President Obama nominated U.S. Attorneys for Wyoming, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the Eastern District of North Carolina and the Eastern District of Michigan today. They are:

• Christopher A. Crofts (Wyoming): Gov. David Freudenthal’s legal counsel since 2006 previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for 16 years. He would replace Bush holdover Kelly Rankin, who has headed the office since 2008.

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  James L. Santelle (Wisconsin Law Journal).

  James L. Santelle (Eastern District of Wisconsin):  The Assistant U.S. Attorney has served in his current role since 1985. While working in the office he simultaneously has had stints as  principal deputy director for the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys, civil division chief for the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Michigan and a Justice Department attaché. He would replace Steven Biskupic who was appointed U.S. Attorney by Bush in May 2002. In 2007, Biskupic and his office came under review by congressional investigators looking into the dismissal of U.S. Attorneys. He resigned in January to join the Milwaukee law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich as a litigator.

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  Thomas G. Walker (Alston & Bird)

  Thomas G. Walker (Eastern District of North Carolina): The partner at Alston & Bird, LLP has been with the firm since 2003. He previously served as special counsel to North Carolina attorney general Roy A. Cooper, III,  an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina and an assistant district attorney for Mecklenburg County, N.C. Walker would replace Bush holdover George E. B. Holding. Holding is overseeing federal probes of two prominent Democrats: Former Gov. Mike Easley and two-time presidential candidate, ex-Sen. John Edwards.

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  Barbara L. McQuade (ICLE).

  Barbara L. McQuade (Eastern District of Michigan): The Assistant U.S. Attorney has served in her role for 11 years. Simultaneously she has served as deputy chief of the national security unit since 2005. McQuade previously was an associate at Butzel Long, P.C. She would replace Stephen J. Murphy who became U.S. Attorney in 2006. In 2008 he became a federal judge in the Eastern District of Michigan.

Obama has now made a total of 34 U.S. Attorney nominations. The full Senate has considered 24 of those nominees and they were all confirmed by unanimous consent.

Ryan Reilly contributed to this report.