Connecticut District Attorney John Durham announced his resignation on Friday.
He was appointed interim U.S. Attorney in November 2017 and then appointed to the position of U.S. Attorney by President Donald Trump in February 2018.
Durham spent more than 38 years as a federal prosecutor in Connecticut before taking on the role of U.S. attorney.
“My career has been as fulfilling as I could have ever imagined when I graduated from law school in 1975,” Durham said in a press release. “Much of this fulfillment has been from all the people with whom I have been blessed to share this workplace and from our law enforcement agencies. My love and respect for this Office and vital work “It’s been a great honor to serve here as a lawyer in the United States and as a career prosecutor before that, and I’m going to miss him a lot.”
Durham’s resignation is not unexpected. Earlier this month, the Justice Department asked U.S. attorneys appointed by President Donald Trump to resign so the Biden administration could present its own candidacies for those positions.
Durham was appointed last year by then Attorney General William Barr as special counsel to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. He will continue in that role, according to the Associated Press.
The resignation as U.S. attorney in Connecticut will take effect at midnight on February 28th.
The first U.S. attorney, Leonard Boyle, will act as U.S. interim attorney.