TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 19, 2024

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Reagan Taylor Fondren has been named acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee following this week’s resignation of Kevin G. Ritz. Fondren earned her law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law and has served with the U.S. Department of Justice her entire career, first with the Drug Enforcement Administration and then with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. In 2014, she returned to her hometown of Memphis to join the U.S. Attorney’s Office as an assistant U.S. attorney. She has served in both the criminal and civil divisions, heading the Civil Rights Unit and leading the Financial Litigation and Bankruptcy divisions. In October 2022, she was named first assistant. Read more about her career in a press release from the office.