Maine District Court judge Andrew Benson is President Donald Trump’s pick for the state’s next U.S. attorney.
Benson was nominated on Tuesday to serve a four-year term as U.S. attorney for the District of Maine.
The office is one of the top state-level prizes awarded when the White House changes hands. Maine Republicans have been speculating heavily about the pick since Trump won the 2024 election, particularly after he took office with an aggressive agenda to reshape the federal government in his image.
Benson was a favorite for the U.S. attorney post and considered a conventional pick among possible nominees.
He was nominated to the bench by former Gov. Paul LePage in 2014 and reappointed by Gov. Janet Mills in 2021. Before that, he was the senior homicide prosecutor in the Maine attorney general’s office.
