Acting U.S. Attorney Patrick Lemon

Patrick Lemon is the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi.  Mr. Lemon became Acting U.S. Attorney on January 18, 2025. He serves in that capacity under the Vacancies Reform Act upon the resignation of U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee.  As Acting U.S. Attorney, he is responsible for overseeing all federal criminal prosecutions and the litigation of all civil matters in the Southern District of Mississippi.

Mr. Lemon is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, Coastal Carolina College and the Mississippi College School of Law. During his thirty years of practicing law, he has worked in a private law firm in Jackson and as an Assistant District Attorney in the Seventh and Twentieth Judicial Districts. In 2008, he joined the United States Attorney’s Office prosecuting violent and white-collar crime. While at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Lemon has served as an Assistant United States Attorney, Senior Litigation Counsel, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, Chief of the Criminal Division, and First Assistant United States Attorney.