La Jolla’s Adam Gordon, whose political contributions in 2024 included $2,000 to Donald Trump, has reportedly been named interim U.S. attorney for the San Diego region.
The San Diego Union-Tribune on Thursday reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi has tapped Gordon, an assistant U.S. attorney here, to succeed Tara McGrath, among those fired by Trump.
But as of 12:15 p.m. Friday, the DOJ’s Southern District of California website still lists Andrew R. Haden as acting U.S. attorney, the government’s top local prosecutor.
And no press release has been sent on Gordon being named interim U.S. attorney here.
Gordon, 43, was previously a San Diego County deputy district attorney from 2009 to 2014, who in 2017 sought appointment by the county Board of Supervisors to be interim district attorney to succeed the resigning Bonnie Dumanis.
The U-T said Gordon, who joined the local U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2019, has not held a supervisory role “but until recently served as the opioid coordinator, which included leading prosecutions of fentanyl dealers whose products resulted in overdose deaths.”
The U-T quoted former U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer as saying: “He’s a terrifically talented trial lawyer — organized, ethical and hard working. He’s a terrific prosecutor and leader … (and) one of the best hires I made.”
Besides sending money to Trump, Adam Alexander Gordon also made donations to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ($250 in June 2024) and $1,200 to the 2020 Golden State Delegation, a conservative political action committee, according to opensecrets.org.
In 2015, Gordon gave $300 to Maverick PAC, described on its website as “the premier national network for conservative young professionals. We are next generation leaders working together to build a pragmatic, conservative future for America.”
Gordon is a 2004 graduate of Harvard University, where he was a wide receiver on its varsity football team.
“For his work as a student-athlete, he was awarded the Francis H. Burr Scholarship Prize and the Patrick C. Melendez Award,” said a biography on the site of his former employer, downtown-based Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek.
At Seltzer, his specialties were listed as “litigation” and “White Collar Criminal Defense/Government Investigations.”
As a deputy district attorney in San Diego, he was assigned to the Central Pre-Trial Unit, Gang Unit, East County Branch and Superior Court Division, and tried 30 cases to jury verdict, said his bio.
“He began his career by serving on the trial team which successfully prosecuted one of the murderers of Oceanside Police Officer Dan Bessant,” it added.
“Mr. Gordon rose through the ranks and assumed first chair responsibility, leading him to prosecute jury trials in cases such as premeditated attempted murder, gang violence, assault causing great bodily injury, battery causing great bodily injury, robbery and residential burglary.”
He also defended a foreign business executive indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California related to the “Fat Leonard” U.S. Navy bribery scandal.
Gordon and the San Diego DOJ office didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
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