Meet the U.S. Attorney

Patrick Robbins
Acting U.S. Attorney

Patrick D. Robbins served as the First Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California until February 12th, 2025. Mr. Robbins returned to the Office to assume that role on July 10, 2023.

Mr. Robbins previously was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office for approximately ten years. From 1995 to 2004, he prosecuted cases involving organized crime, narcotics, firearms, bank robberies, insider trading, market manipulation, and investor frauds. From 2000 to 2001, he served as Pacific Regional Coordinator for DOJ’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and as Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Section. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Robbins was Chief of the Securities Fraud Section and a member of the Enron Task Force, leading the Department of Justice’s investigation into criminal manipulation of the California electricity markets by Enron and others during the State’s energy crisis.

From 2005 to 2023, Mr. Robbins was a San Francisco-based partner at the law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP, where he specialized in white collar criminal defense and investigations. Mr. Robbins received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1985, and graduated summa cum laude from the American University, Washington College of Law, in 1989. After law school, Mr. Robbins served as a law clerk to the Honorable Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.