Alamdar Hamdani is the 24th United States Attorney (USA) for the Southern District of Texas. Nominated by President Biden in October 2022 and confirmed by the United States Senate in December 2022. Hamdani is the chief federal law enforcement officer for the Southern District of Texas (SDTX). As USA, Hamdani supervises the investigation and prosecution of all federal crimes and the litigation of all civil matters in which the United States has an interest.  He manages an office of about 400 employees and 200 federal prosecutors spread out throughout Houston, Galveston, Laredo, Brownsville, McAllen, and Corpus Christi.    

Hamdani joined the SDTX in 2014, but has been with the Department of Justice since 2008. As an AUSA with the SDTX, he was primarily responsible for the investigation and prosecution of national security and official corruption crimes. From 2010 to 2014, Hamdani served in the Counterterrorism Section of the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, holding the position of deputy chief from 2012 to 2014. Prior to that, he was an AUSA in the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Hamdani serves on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC) representing the Fifth Circuit USAs.  He also chairs the AGAC’s Border and Immigration Subcommittee.  

During his tenure as an AUSA with the SDTX, Hamdani was also an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center.

Hamdani received his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 1999 and his B.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993.