Former US Attorney Jessica Aber, 43, found dead at Virginia residence: police

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A erstwhile United States lawyer was recovered dormant successful Virginia connected Saturday morning, conscionable 2 months aft leaving office.

Jessica D. Aber, 43, worked arsenic the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2021 to 2025. Appointed by erstwhile President Joe Biden, she served successful the relation until resigning connected Jan. 20 of this year.

In a quality merchandise Saturday, the Alexandria Police Department (APD) confirmed Aber's death, reporting that it received a telephone astir an "unresponsive woman" astatine astir 9:18 a.m. Saturday.

"As a substance of protocol, an probe is underway surrounding the circumstances of her death," the APD said successful its statement. "The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia volition find the origin and mode of death."

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U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber speaks during a property league astatine the U.S. Department of Justice connected Dec. 6, 2023, successful Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

According to Aber's Department of Justice biography, she graduated from William & Mary Law School successful 2006. Her relation progressive "[leading] a unit of astir 300 prosecutors, civilian litigators, and enactment unit crossed 4 Divisions located successful Alexandria, Richmond, Norfolk, and Newport News."

In her resignation statement, Aber said that moving arsenic a U.S Attorney was "an grant beyond measure."

"I americium profoundly grateful to Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and to President Biden for the accidental to pb this office, and to Attorney General Garland for his steadfast leadership," Aber said astatine the time. "I americium arrogant of the enactment we person done with our federal, state, and section instrumentality enforcement partners to enforce the instrumentality and physique assemblage trust."

U.S. Attorney Erik S. Siebert, Aber's successor, said that helium was "heartbroken beyond words" to perceive astir Aber's passing connected Saturday.

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Jessica D. Aber, 43, was recovered dormant connected Mar. 22. (U.S. Department of Justice Archives)

"She was unmatched arsenic a leader, mentor, and prosecutor, and she is simply irreplaceable arsenic a quality being," Siebert said. "We stay successful awe of however overmuch she accomplished successful her each excessively little clip successful this world. Her professionalism, grace, and ineligible acumen acceptable the standard."

The lawyer said that "each of america successful the Eastern District of Virginia volition look to her illustration and endeavor to unrecorded up to that standard."

"Jess was a arrogant Virginian from precocious schoolhouse done assemblage and passim her career," Siebert said. "She loved EDVA and EDVA loved her back. We stay committed to her life’s work, a committedness to seeking justice, arsenic she would person wanted."