Jack Smith (lawyer)

Jack Smith
Smith in 2023
Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office November 18, 2022
Appointed by	Merrick Garland
United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee
Acting March 14, 2017 – September 21, 2017
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	David Rivera
Succeeded by	Donald Q. Cochran
Personal details
Born	John Luman Smith (1969-06-05) June 5, 1969 (age 54)
Political party	Independent[1]
Spouse	Katy Chevigny ​ (m. 2011)​
Children	1
Education	State University of New York at Oneonta (BA) Harvard University (JD)
Profession	Lawyer

John Luman Smith (born June 5, 1969) is an American attorney who has served in the United States Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. attorney, acting U.S. attorney, and head of the department's Public Integrity Section. He was also the chief prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, an international tribunal at The Hague tasked with investigating and prosecuting war crimes in the Kosovo War.

In November 2022, attorney general Merrick Garland appointed Smith an independent special counsel, responsible for overseeing two preexisting Justice Department criminal investigations into former president Donald Trump, three days after Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign: one regarding Trump's role in the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack, and the other into alleged mishandling of government records, including classified documents. The documents case resulted in a 37-count indictment of Trump in June 2023 to which three counts were later added in July.^[2] In August, the January 6 case resulted in an indictment on four charges.^[3]