Thomas A. DiBiase General Counsel

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Thomas A. (Tad) DiBiase graduated cum laude from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in Politics in 1987. He graduated with a J.D. cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 1991, and joined the Washington office of New York's Shearman & Sterling law firm. He was a litigation associate at the firm from 1991 to 1995.

Mr. DiBiase then joined the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia in 1995. He rotated through various sections of the office, but was mainly a homicide prosecutor until he left in 2007. Among the leadership positions Mr. DiBiase held at the USAO were Deputy Chief of the Misdemeanor Section, Chief of the Third District Homicide/Major Crimes Section, Director of Training and Professional Development, and Deputy Chief of the Homicide Section. In 2007, he joined the construction litigation boutique firm of Shapiro, Lifschitz and Schramm where he practiced trial work until 2010.

In April 2010, Mr. DiBiase joined the USCP as the Deputy General Counsel. He served as Acting General Counsel for the Department from October 2019 to August 2020. He became the USCP's General Counsel on August 16, 2020.