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Friday, June 19, 2009
New Judge To Take Bench
Journal Staff Report
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory B. Wormuth will be formally sworn in today for an eight-year term as U.S. magistrate judge in the district of New Mexico.
Wormuth fills a vacancy created by the retirement of the Hon. Leslie C. Smith.
Wormuth served as a federal prosecutor in the Las Cruces branch office until beginning work last month as a magistrate judge.
He received his undergraduate degree in economics from Davidson College, which he attended on an Army ROTC scholarship, in 1992. He graduated first in his class from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1995.
Before starting his Army career, Wormuth worked as a litigation associate with Bradley, Arant, Rose and White in Birmingham, Ala.
He served four years as a legal assistance attorney and a trial counsel in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps stationed at Fort Sill, Okla.
He left active duty at the end of 1999 and was hired as an assistant U.S. attorney in Las Cruces, working much of his time as the office's Organized Crime Task Force attorney responsible for prosecuting large cases which targeted the leaders of organized crime and drug trafficking organizations and corrupt law enforcement officers.
For the last year, Wormuth was branch chief in the Las Cruces office in charge of 20 attorneys and their support staff.
Wormuth remains a member of the Army Reserves. In the last nine years, he has been assigned to a variety of positions as a JAG officer. He has served as a legal assistance attorney for soldiers and their families, as a trial counsel for reserve units, as an instructor with the Army Command and General's Staff College, and as a defense attorney for soldiers accused of criminal and administrative violations.
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