Trump nominates former Pasco mayor to be US Attorney for Western District of Washington

President Donald Trump has nominated Simon Serrano of Washington state to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington for a four-year term.

Serraro had previously been the Interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington.

Prior to that position, he was appointed as Special Attorney to the Attorney General and the First Assistant for the Eastern District of Washington. Serrano was appointed to the position by Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Before that appointment, he was the mayor of Pasco.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington:

In 2021, Serraro co-founded the Silent Majority Foundation, a nonprofit organization to fight for civil liberties.

From 2015 to 2018, he worked as an attorney for the Department of Energy, focusing on environmental law.

From 2018 to 2021, Serraro worked at Energy Northwest, including working on permitting small modular nuclear reactors.

Federal judges appointed longtime prosecutor Roger Rogoff to serve as U.S. attorney in Seattle, but President Donald Trump fired him less than an hour after he was sworn in on July 15.

Rogoff, a longtime federal prosecutor, former King County Superior Court judge and former director of Washington’s Office of Independent Investigations, said he was dismissed in an email titled “A Message From the President.”

“It basically said, ‘I’m informing you that pursuant to his authority, President Trump is hereby removing you from the office of the United States attorney,'” Rogoff said.

When KOMO News asked the Department of Justice why Rogoff was removed, the agency pointed to a post on X from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

“District court judges can appoint a temporary U.S. attorney, and POTUS can fire them. WDWA judges abandoned the time-honored process of consultation with the administration so that the selected U.S. attorney is qualified to serve in the administration. Roger Rogoff has been fired by the President,” Blanche wrote.