Source: Office of United States Attorneys
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam F. Sleeper is now Acting U.S. Attorney
St. Thomas, VI – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today the departure of Delia L. Smith as U.S. Attorney.
Under the Vacancies Reform Act, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam F. Sleeper is now the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands. As Acting U.S. Attorney, he is the chief federal law enforcement official in the territory of the Virgin Islands.
Sleeper is a career prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office. He has served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney and as Appellate Chief.
Sleeper received an undergraduate degree from Connecticut College and a law degree from Cornell Law School. Before joining the Department of Justice, he clerked for Judge Curtis Gómez of the District Court of the Virgin Islands and Judge Joel Carson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He also worked as an associate in the Boston, Massachusetts office of an international law firm.