Kenneth L. Parker is an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio, where he has served since 1999. He served as Chief of the Criminal Division from 2011 to 2019 and as Chief of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force from 2010 to 2011. From 2003 to 2005, Parker served as an Adjunct Professor of federal criminal practice at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He served as a law clerk for the late Judge S. Arthur Spiegel on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio from 1997 to 1999.
Parker received his J.D. from Indiana University School of Law in 1997 and his B.S., magna cum laude, from Tuskegee University in 1994.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Parker will be the attorney in charge of the pending case against former Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio GOP chair Matt Borges relating to the HB 6 bribery scandal involving First Energy that is widely understood to be the largest public scandal in the state's history.
Biden has yet to announce his nominee for the Northern District of Ohio.
Parker has served as president of the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and of the Black Lawyers Association of Cincinnati. Parker also serves as Chair of the Summer Work Experience in Law program (SWEL) which seeks to increase the number African Americans in the legal profession. Parker is an alumnus of the 30-year old program and has been instrumental in its expansion to Hamilton, Dayton and Columbus. He is working to establish SWEL throughout the entire State of Ohio.
Parker is honored and proud to be a husband to Cheryl and father of twins, Lena and Cecilia. His heroes include his parents, Henry and Betty Parker, Charles Hamilton Houston, Esq., A. Philip Randolph, Nelson Mandela, Judge S. Arthur Spiegel, and Harriet Tubman.
Other U.S. attorney nominees announced today include:
Clare E. Connors, U.S. Attorney nominee for the District of Hawaii; Zachary A. Cunha, U.S. Attorney nominee for the District of Rhode Island; Michael F. Easley, Jr., U.S. Attorney nominee for the Eastern District of North Carolina; Cole Finegan, U.S. Attorney nominee for the District of Colorado; Sandra J. Hairston, U.S. Attorney nominee for the Middle District of North Carolina; Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney nominee for the Western District of North Carolina; Nikolas P. Kerest, U.S. Attorney nominee for the District of Vermont; and Delia L. Smith, U.S. Attorney nominee for the District of Virgin Islands.
The President has now announced 25 nominees to serve as U.S. Attorneys.
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