Government counsel / Fourth Circuit
Western District of North Carolina
The attorneys who appeared for the government in this court's agency-delay suits, read from each suit's attorneys of record. It is a record of who has appeared, not the office's staff list.
Read from the attorneys of record of 133 of the 202 agency-delay suits in the docket record for this court; 18 of them name government counsel. Only the 133 suits with a public docket on CourtListener can be read, and a suit names no government counsel until an attorney appears and that public copy is refreshed afterwards, so older suits, recent suits and quiet districts are thin. Updated November 14, 2026 at 1:17 a.m. CT. How this list is made.
How this court's decisions and suits came out. This court's suits. Every district's attorneys (CSV).
U.S. Attorney's Office
| Attorney | Telephone and email | Suits | Latest suit filed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan M. Warren | (704) 344-6222 jonathan.warren@usdoj.gov | 4 | May 13, 2026 |
| Amy E. Ray | (828) 271-4661 amy.ray@usdoj.gov | 1 | February 24, 2026 |
| Bisola Oni | (202) 252-0872 | 1 | July 8, 2026 |
| Malcolm McDermond | (202) 252-1709 | 1 | July 8, 2026 |
| William Wales Metcalf | (704) 344-6222 william.metcalf@usdoj.gov | 1 | July 7, 2026 |
| Gill Paul Beck , Sr. | (828) 271-4661 gill.beck@usdoj.gov | 5 | October 21, 2025 |
| Caroline B. McLean | (828) 259-0673 caroline.mclean@usdoj.gov | 1 | June 30, 2025 |
| Janice Powers | (704) 344-6222 janice.powers@usdoj.gov | 1 | October 20, 2025 |
| Jonathan D. Letzring (former AUSA) office entry, not a person | (828) 259-0655 jonathan.letzring@usdoj.gov | 1 | November 28, 2022 |
From the Justice Department in Washington
Attorneys of the Office of Immigration Litigation and the rest of the Civil Division, who appear in many districts. All of them, with their districts.
| Attorney | Telephone and email | Suits | Latest suit filed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hans Harris Chen | (202) 305-0190 hans.h.chen@usdoj.gov | 1 | February 9, 2024 |
| Ian S. Lam | (202) 307-6329 ian.s.lam@usdoj.gov | 1 | February 2, 2023 |
| Joseph G. Nosse | (202) 616-4945 joseph.g.nosse@usdoj.gov | 1 | February 2, 2023 |
| Nicole Patrice Grant | (202) 598-2731 nicole.p.grant@usdoj.gov | 1 | February 2, 2023 |
Justice Department, office not printed
These dockets print a Justice Department email address for the attorney and no office, so the attorney may belong to this district's U.S. Attorney's Office or to Washington.
| Attorney | Telephone and email | Suits | Latest suit filed |
|---|---|---|---|
| James B. Gatehouse | (980) 242-5001 james.gatehouse@usdoj.gov | 2 | September 16, 2022 |
| US Attorney-USCIS Noticing office entry, not a person | debbie.gaddy@usdoj.gov | 3 | July 8, 2026 |
| James B. Gatehouse (former AUSA) office entry, not a person | caseview.ecf@usdoj.gov | 2 | March 24, 2023 |
Suits counts the agency-delay suits in the docket record in which the attorney is counsel of record; the past-year count runs back one year from the newest suit in the record. Some dockets name an office in an attorney's place, usually before a suit is assigned ("AUSA - Chicago"); those are listed last, marked as office entries, with the office's own mailbox. Telephone numbers and email addresses are the ones printed on the public docket of the attorney's latest suit; confirm them on that docket before relying on them. An attorney who has moved on stays listed, and the date of the latest suit shows how current an entry is. Nothing here says how any attorney's suits ended. Tell us about a correction.