U.S. Attorney Todd Graves
Western District
Of
Missouri

Todd P. Graves

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Todd P. Graves, 38, is the United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.

Graves was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the top federal law enforcement official for western Missouri on July 30, 2001. Graves took his oath of office on an interim appointment as U.S. Attorney by the U.S. District Court on September 17, 2001, and his presidential appointment was formally confirmed by the United States Senate on October 11, 2001.

Graves came to the U.S. Attorney's Office from his position as Platte County Prosecuting Attorney, an office to which he was elected in 1994 and 1998. At the time of his election to that post in 1994, he was the youngest full-time prosecuting attorney in Missouri. In that position, he managed six assistant prosecutors and a yearly caseload of approximately 400 felonies, 2,500 misdemeanors and 14,000 traffic offenses.

Prior to his service as Platte County Prosecuting Attorney, from 1992 to 1994, Graves was in private practice with the law firm of Bryan Cave. In 1991, he was employed as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Missouri, and served that year as a staff assistant on the Governor's Commission on Crime.

In 1988, Graves received an undergraduate degree in agricultural economics, with a minor in political science, from the University of Missouri-Columbia, graduating Summa Cum Laude. He received his law degree and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Virginia in 1991.

Raised on a family farm near Tarkio, Mo., Graves has been married 13 years to his wife, Tracy. The couple have four children, and reside on a 270-acre farm north of Kansas City that has been in the family since 1867.

As U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Graves oversees a staff of 120, including 60 attorneys and 60 non-attorney support personnel. The district is headquartered in Kansas City, with staffed branch offices in Springfield and Jefferson City. The district is comprised of 66 of Missouri's 114 counties, and encompasses the metropolitan areas of St. Joseph, Columbia, Jefferson City, Springfield, Joplin and Kansas City, Mo.

The nation's 93 United States Attorneys are responsible for the prosecution of federal crimes such as firearms, narcotics, public corruption, money laundering, child pornography and fraud; the defense of civil cases brought against the United States; and the collection of debts owed to the United States and restitution owed by criminals to their victims.