Melinda Haag

Haag served as Co-Chair of the White Collar Crime Subcommittee of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee and was a member of the Cybersecurity and Health Care Fraud Subcommittees, where she collaborated with U.S. Attorneys nationwide on the development and implementation of national policies and practices regarding the government's approach to economic crimes and cybersecurity.

On January 13, 2016, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe announced that Melinda Haag would be rejoining the firm as head of its Global Litigation Practice beginning on March 1, 2016.

Melinda Haag spent 14 years in private law practice and nine years as a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles and San Francisco prior to her appointment as U.S. Attorney in 2010. From 1989-1993, she served in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles and then went into private practice at the San Francisco firm Landels Ripley & Diamond. She joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco in 1999 before joining the San Francisco office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

In August 2010, Haag was appointed to the Northern District of California U.S. Attorney's Office by President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed without debate by the United States Senate. Her appointment marked the first time in 90 years that a female U.S. Attorney represented the district. She served in that position for five years, stepping down in September 2015.

In 1983, Haag graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science. In 1987, she received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Melinda L. Haag (born 1961) is a San Francisco-based litigator and former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California.