Jonathan S. Ross*

Jonathan is a Shareholder in Maynard Nexsen’s Government Investigations & White Collar Defense practice group.

Jonathan is a former U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Before that, he served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney and later the Acting U.S. Attorney. During his time as U.S. Attorney, Jonathan was a member of the Controlled Substances Subcommittee of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee and the Middle District’s Court Advisory Committee.

Jonathan spent eight years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the office’s Criminal Division. In that role, he prosecuted a variety of cases, focusing primarily on financial and healthcare offenses. He was lead counsel in multiple complex, multi-week federal jury trials.

Outside of his case work, Jonathan served as the office’s Senior Litigation Counsel, responsible for facilitating training for both new and experienced attorneys. At various times, he also held the roles of Criminal Healthcare Fraud Coordinator, Environmental Crimes Coordinator, Suspicious Activity Report Coordinator, and Ethics Advisor.

Jonathan began his legal career as a clerk for the Honorable James C. Dever, III of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and then for the Honorable Frank M. Hull of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Jonathan holds a J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the Duke University School of Law. During law school, he served as editor-in-chief of the Alaska Law Review. He earned his B.A. in Political Science and Religious Studies from the University of South Carolina, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and from which he graduated magna cum laude and with honors from the South Carolina Honors College.