Mark Totten

A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Totten attended the Kalamazoo Public Schools.https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmi/pr/2025_0114_M_Totten_Departure He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Cedarville University in 1996, a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, and a PhD in ethics from Yale University.{{Cite web|last=Mauger|first=Robert Snell and Craig|title=President Biden nominates Ison, Totten for Michigan U.S. attorney jobs|url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/11/12/president-biden-nominates-ison-totten-michigan-u-s-attorney-jobs/8592588002/|access-date=2021-11-13|website=The Detroit News|language=en-US}}

From 2007 to 2008, Totten served as a law clerk for Judge Thomas B. Griffith of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He also worked as an appellate staffer in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. From 2011 to 2013, he served as special assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan. Totten was the Democratic nominee in the 2014 Michigan Attorney General election, losing to incumbent Bill Schuette.{{Cite web|title=Mark Totten|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_Totten|access-date=2021-11-13|website=Ballotpedia|language=en}}

From 2016 to 2017, Totten was an assistant prosecuting attorney in the Office of the Genesee County Prosecuting Attorney. From 2008 to 2018, he was a professor at the Michigan State University College of Law.{{Cite web|date=2021-11-13|title=President Biden Announces First U.S. Marshal Nominees and Eight New Nominees to Serve as U.S. Attorneys|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/12/president-biden-announces-first-u-s-marshal-nominees-and-eight-new-nominees-to-serve-as-u-s-attorneys/|access-date=2021-11-13|website=The White House|language=en-US}} From 2019 to 2022, Totten served as chief legal counsel for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.{{Cite news|last=Mahler|first=Jonathan|date=2020-06-25|title=A Governor on Her Own, With Everything at Stake|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/magazine/gretchen-whitmer-coronavirus-michigan.html|access-date=2021-11-13|issn=0362-4331}}

On November 12, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Totten to serve as the United States attorney for the Western District of Michigan. On November 15, 2021, his nomination was sent to the United States Senate.{{Cite press release |title=Nominations Sent to the Senate |date=November 15, 2021 |publisher=The White House |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/15/nominations-sent-to-the-senate-45/}} {{PD-notice}} On January 13, 2022, his nomination was reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. On April 27, 2022, his nomination was confirmed in the Senate by voice vote.{{Cite web |date=January 13, 2022 |title=PN1383 - Nomination of Mark A. Totten for Department of Justice, 117th Congress (2021-2022) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/117th-congress/1383 |access-date=April 27, 2022 |website=www.congress.gov}} He was sworn in on May 5, 2022.{{Cite press release |title=Mark A. Totten Sworn In As United States Attorney |date=May 5, 2022 |publisher=U.S. Attorney's Office Western District of Michigan |location=Grand Rapids, Michigan |url=https://www.justice.gov/Usao-wdmi/pr/2022_0505_Totten |access-date=May 18, 2022}} Due to a new president taking office, he resigned his position effective January 20, 2025.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-14 |title=Western District of Michigan {{!}} U.S. Attorney Mark Totten Announces Departure {{!}} United States Department of Justice |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmi/pr/2025_0114_M_Totten_Departure |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=www.justice.gov |language=en}}

Totten and his wife, Kristin, have two children.{{Cite web|title=Bio sketches of candidates for attorney general > Detroit Legal News|url=http://legalnews.com/detroit/1395638|access-date=2021-11-13|website=legalnews.com}}

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