Government counsel / Fifth Circuit
Eastern District of Texas
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 171 of the 376 agency-delay suits in the docket record for this court; 42 of them name government counsel. Only the 171 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| J Kevin McClendon | (972) 509-1201 kevin.mcclendon@usdoj.gov | 26 | April 22, 2025 |
| Michael Wayne Lockhart | (409) 981-7940 michael.lockhart@usdoj.gov | 7 | June 13, 2023 |
| James Garland Gillingham | (903) 510-9346 james.gillingham@usdoj.gov | 5 | April 22, 2025 |
| Whitney Tharpe | (903) 510-9357 whitney.tharpe@usdoj.gov | 5 | February 6, 2025 |
| Daniel Terrence Gaffney | (972) 423-2932 daniel.gaffney2@usdoj.gov | 3 | October 27, 2025 |
| Aimee Michelle Cooper | (972) 943-3597 aimee.cooper@usdoj.gov | 1 | March 11, 2024 |
| Betty Shu Young | (903) 363-8882 betty.young@usdoj.gov | 1 | January 24, 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Ward | (202) 616-9121 brian.c.ward@usdoj.gov | 1 | August 23, 2024 |
| Caroline McGuire | (202) 532-4268 caroline.mcguire@usdoj.gov | 1 | August 23, 2024 |
| Cristen Cori Handley | (202) 305-2677 cristen.handley@usdoj.gov | 1 | December 5, 2023 |
| Dorothy Canevari | (202) 616-8040 | 1 | December 5, 2023 |
| Erez Reuveni | (202) 307-4293 erez.r.reuveni@usdoj.gov | 1 | August 23, 2024 |
| Erin Ryan | (202) 532-5802 erin.t.ryan@usdoj.gov | 1 | August 23, 2024 |
| Joseph Anton Darrow | (202) 598-7537 joseph.a.darrow@usdoj.gov | 1 | August 23, 2024 |
| Vanessa Molina | (202) 532-4413 molina.vanessa2@dol.gov | 1 | January 8, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Chasin | (202) 305-0747 steven.m.chasin2@usdoj.gov | 1 | December 5, 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.