Stewart M. Young serves as the Criminal Deputy Attorney General, drawing on more than 17 years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney Offices for both Salt Lake City and San Diego. While an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA), he tried more than two dozen felony trials to verdict, briefed more than two dozen appeals (in both the Ninth and Tenth Circuits), and argued more than half a dozen times in both circuits. Several months before joining Attorney General Derek Brown’s administration, Stew served for more than three months on a U.S. military base in Zarqa, Jordan, as the civilian DOJ Judicial Attaché for the U.S. Department of Justice assisting with counterterrorism prosecutions throughout the region.
Stew has extensive experience in many areas of criminal law, having investigated and prosecuted public corruption, bribery, mail/wire fraud, Ponzi schemes, criminal tax violations, narcotics trafficking, and continuing criminal enterprise. His bread and butter for the last decade included large-scale investigations involving multiple defendants relating to complex white-collar and securities violations, narcotics trafficking, and violent street gang-affiliated conspiracies.
As an AUSA, he trained federal prosecutors and agents at the National Advocacy Center and throughout the nation. He currently trains attorneys through the National Association of Attorneys General and the International Association of Prosecutors.
In between his time in San Diego and Utah, Stew spent several years as a full-time tenure-track law professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law teaching criminal law subjects and leading a prosecution clinic for law students. Prior to becoming a prosecutor, he clerked for Judge Jay S. Bybee at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Judge Paul Cassell at the United States District Court for the District of Utah. Stew is a graduate of Stanford Law School, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, and Princeton University.
