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President Donald Trump is nominating Tom Wheeler II and Adam Mildred for the U.S. Attorney posts in Indiana’s Southern and Northern Districts.
U.S. Sen. Jim Banks, R-Indiana, announced the news in a written statement.
“President Trump nominated two strong candidates to be the U.S. Attorneys for Indiana. Adam Mildred and Tom Wheeler have decades of experience and are deeply committed to upholding law and order. They both will bring integrity to the job and I look forward to voting for their confirmation soon. I’m also grateful for Acting U.S. Attorney Scott Proctor’s service to Indiana during this time,” Banks said in a written statement.
Additionally, Trump named Scott Proctor as Acting U.S. Attorney in Indiana’s Northern District.
According to Banks’ office, Wheeler is the Acting General Counsel at the Department of Education and will be nominated as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District. He will serve as acting U.S. attorney in the interim while his nomination is pending.
Wheeler has held senior roles across the federal government, including Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, Senior Advisor to the White House School Safety Commission, and Counsel to the Secretary of Education.
Wheeler has been part of the Trump administration’s inter-agency Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, a group the Justice Department said in February was created to stop the harassment of Jewish students in schools and on college campuses.
Before returning to government, Wheeler was a partner at Bose McKinney & Evans LLP in Indianapolis, where he represented federal, state, and local public entities. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and a J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
Mildred is currently a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Allen County and was formerly the Chief Deputy Prosecutor in Noble County.
According to Banks’ office, Mildred is a veteran Indiana prosecutor and has prosecuted more than 200 cases, including trials involving homicide, robbery, drug trafficking, and federal firearms offenses. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Ball State University and a J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
Proctor currently serves in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice.
He was formerly an Assistant U. S. Attorney in the Northern District of Oklahoma and an associate at Dechert LLP.
Before attending law school, he served in the U. S. Navy and continues to serve as a reserve officer. Scott clerked for Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey Sutton and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Wheeler’s and Mildred’s nominations now will be considered by the U.S. Senate for confirmation. The nominations are part of a new president’s customary moves to name new federal prosecutors across the country.
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