Eric Schmitt: “I rise today to wholeheartedly endorse the nomination of Tom Albus to be the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of…”

“I rise today to wholeheartedly endorse the nomination of Tom Albus to be the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. He is part of the forthcoming nominations package that this body will be voting on later this week. His nomination in particular is special to me. He not only is eastern Missouri--the eastern district of Missouri, my lifelong home--but when I was attorney general of Missouri, Tom was my first assistant, the chief deputy when I first came into office. He is a proud alum of Georgetown, Mizzou Law, and St. Louis University High School. Tom is one of the finest prosecutors I have met in my whole life. For 17 years, Tom served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Missouri, where he won numerous special achievement awards and recognition for his outstanding service. Tom served as my first assistant attorney general in Missouri and then as a circuit judge in Missouri's 21st Judicial Circuit, which is in St. Louis County. In his distinguished legal career, Tom has appeared in nearly 900 Federal criminal prosecutions and civil matters. He has tried 15 cases to verdict and presided over dozens more as a judge. But Tom shines just as bright outside of the courtroom. He is as committed to St. Louis as anyone I have ever met. As a lifetime leader at the Missouri Athletic Club, in our local parish--the Mary Queen of Peace Catholic Church--with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri, and as the mock trial coach for St.…”