Alamdar S. Hamdani

Hamdani was born in Manchester, England, to Indian parents who had moved there from Surat, Gujarat, India.Megan Munce & Clare Fonstein, [https://archive.today/20221212055752/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/alamdar-hamdani-us-attorney-texas-17646736.php Prosecutor who took on terrorists, corrupt cops to become new U.S. Attorney for the Houston region], Houston Chronicle (December 11, 2022). He moved with his family to Euless, Texas, at the age of ten, and graduated from Trinity High School there in 1989.{{Cite web |last=Dooley |first=Tara |date=June 18, 2006 |title=Events of 9/11 inspires lawyer to focus attention on civil-rights issues |url=https://www.chron.com/life/article/Events-of-9-11-inspires-lawyer-to-focus-attention-1875111.php |access-date=November 17, 2022 |website=Houston Chronicle |language=en-US}} He received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center in 1999.{{Cite press release |title=President Biden Makes Twenty-Seventh Judicial Nominations Announcement and Announces New Nominees to Serve as U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Marshals |date=October 14, 2022 |publisher=The White House |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/14/president-biden-makes-twenty-seventh-judicial-nominations-announcement-and-announces-new-nominees-to-serve-as-u-s-attorneys-and-u-s-marshals/ |access-date=November 17, 2022}} {{PD-notice}}

From 1999 to 2001, Hamdani was an associate at Dow, Cogburn & Friedman PC. From 2001 to 2005, he was an associate at Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC. From 2005 to 2008, he was a founding partner of Hamdani & Simon LLP. From 2008 to 2012, he was an assistant United States attorney in the Eastern District of Kentucky. From 2012 to 2014, he served as deputy chief of the counterterrorism section of the National Security Division at the Department of Justice. From 2014 through 2022, he served as an assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas.

Hamdani co-prosecuted the case of Leatrice Malika DeBruhl-Daniels, an NCIS agent convicted of "obstructing justice, making false statements, and accepting money and gifts for official acts". She failed to disclose her relationship with Nadal Diya, a Syrian businessman living in Dubai, from whom she accepted gifts and revealed to him the status of his visa application and other classified national security information, including that Diya was the subject of a counterterrorism investigation.{{Cite web |date=June 14, 2022 |title=Former federal agent convicted of corruption in connection to illicit relationship with subject of counterterrorism investigation |url=https://www.mytexasdaily.com/upper-gulf-coast/former-federal-agent-convicted-of-corruption-in-connection-to-illicit-relationship-with-subject-of-counterterrorism/article_83ec0b5c-ec20-11ec-82e4-d71d4d25c380.html |access-date=November 17, 2022 |website=MyTexasDaily.com |language=en}}

On October 14, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Hamdani to be the United States attorney for the Southern District of Texas. On November 14, 2022, his nomination was sent to the United States Senate.{{Cite press release |title=Nominations Sent to the Senate |date=November 14, 2022 |publisher=The White House |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/14/nominations-sent-to-the-senate-87/}} On December 1, 2022, his nomination was reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by voice vote.{{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/EBM%20Results%20-%202022-12-011.pdf|title=Results of Executive Business Meeting – December 1, 2022|publisher=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|accessdate=December 1, 2022}} On December 6, 2022, his nomination was confirmed in the Senate by voice vote.{{Cite web |date=December 6, 2022 |title=PN2696 — Alamdar S. Hamdani — Department of Justice |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/117th-congress/2696 |access-date=December 6, 2022 |website=uscongress.gov}} He was sworn in by District Judge Randy Crane on December 12, 2022.{{cite web |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/alamdar-s-hamdani-serve-sdtx-united-states-attorney |title=Alamdar S. Hamdani to serve as SDTX United States Attorney |date=2022-12-12 |publisher=United States Department of Justice |access-date=2022-12-12}} He is the first Asian American and Pacific Islander to serve as a U.S. Attorney in the state of Texas.{{Cite web |date=October 19, 2022 |title=President Biden names two UH Law Center alumni as U.S. Attorneys in Texas |url=https://www.law.uh.edu/news/fall2022/1019biden.asp |access-date=November 17, 2022 |website=www.law.uh.edu}} Hamdani was recommended to the post by Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.{{Cite press release |title=Cornyn Statement on Nominations of U.S. Attorneys for Texas Districts |date=October 17, 2022 |url=https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/content/news/cornyn-statement-nominations-us-attorneys-texas-districts |access-date=November 17, 2022}}

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