The District of Columbia is getting three new Assistant U.S. Attorneys, the Blog of the Legal Times reported ^[1] today.

Andrew Finkelman, 29, will join the District’s office in the Appellate Division, Stephen Rickard, 29, the Misdemeanor Unit of the General Crimes Section, and Carl “Zeke” Ross, 31, joins the Civil Division.

Finkelman, with his JD from the University of Iowa, served on the Iowa Law Review, and holds a Master’s Degree from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Government, according to a news release from the District’s acting U.S. Attorney, Channing Phillips. Rickard is a 2006 magna cum laude graduate of the Boston University School of Law, and Ross graduated in 2003 from the William and Mary School of Law, where he was an associate articles editor of the William & Mary Law Review.

Most recently, Finkelman served as a law clerk to the senior judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals; Rickard was a law clerk to the Juan R. Torruella of U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; and Ross was an associate at Arnold & Porter.