Government counsel / Sixth Circuit
Southern District of Ohio
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 159 of the 316 agency-delay suits in the docket record for this court; 39 of them name government counsel. Only the 159 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John J. Stark | (614) 469-5715 john.stark@usdoj.gov | 13 | September 15, 2026 |
| Adam Cody Tieger | (937) 531-6795 adam.tieger@usdoj.gov | 3 | August 3, 2026 |
| Matthew Joseph Horwitz | (513) 684-6823 matthew.horwitz@usdoj.gov | 2 | July 23, 2026 |
| Christopher R Yates | (614) 469-5715 christopher.yates@usdoj.gov | 8 | July 24, 2026 |
| Christopher Grant Wilson | (614) 255-1630 christopher.wilson4@usdoj.gov | 1 | August 3, 2026 |
| Kenneth A. Adebonojo | (202) 252-2562 kenneth.adebonojo@usdoj.gov | 2 | January 19, 2023 |
| Alan Thomas Simpson | (816) 426-3130 alan.simpson@usdoj.gov | 1 | February 23, 2022 |
| Derek S. Hammond | (202) 252-2511 derek.hammond@usdoj.gov | 1 | September 23, 2022 |
| Jade K Smarda | (937) 225-2910 jade.smarda@usdoj.gov | 1 | June 28, 2021 |
| Stephanie Michelle Rawlings | (614) 255-1606 stephanie.rawlings@usdoj.gov | 1 | February 16, 2021 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Steven Goldsmith | (202) 307-0340 aaron.goldsmith@usdoj.gov | 1 | February 22, 2021 |
| Adam Kirschner | (202) 307-0340 adam.kirschner@usdoj.gov | 1 | November 18, 2021 |
| Brian C. Rosen-Shaud | (202) 305-7667 brian.c.rosen-shaud@usdoj.gov | 1 | November 18, 2021 |
| Joseph Anton Darrow | (202) 598-7537 joseph.a.darrow@usdoj.gov | 1 | April 25, 2024 |
| Michael Douglas Ross | (202) 742-7118 michael.d.ross@usdoj.gov | 1 | February 1, 2024 |
| Michael F Knapp | (202) 514-2071 michael.f.knapp@usdoj.gov | 1 | November 18, 2021 |
| Stephen Michael Pezzi | (202) 305-8576 stephen.pezzi@usdoj.gov | 1 | October 24, 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Bryan King , II | (513) 684-3711 bill.king@usdoj.gov | 14 | April 7, 2026 |
| R. Trent McCotter | (202) 305-7848 trent.mccotter@usdoj.gov | 1 | October 24, 2024 |
| Sherry D. Soanes | (202) 532-4108 sherry.soanes@usdoj.gov | 1 | July 24, 2025 |
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.