32 Facts About Troy Eid

Troy A Eid was born on 1963 and is an American attorney who served as United States Attorney for the District of Colorado from 2006 to 2009.

Troy Eid is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School and University of Denver College of Law, where he teaches civil and criminal law with a focus on energy, natural resources, environmental regulation, and American Indian law.

Troy Eid was born in 1963 in Chicago, Illinois to Edward and Sandra Eid.

Edward Eid was an Egyptian who immigrated to the United States in 1957 with $100.

Troy Eid was raised in Wheat Ridge, Colorado and graduated from Stanford University in 1986, majoring in Russian Language and Literature.

Troy Eid was elected editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and met his future wife, Allison Hartwell, while standing in line at a dorm cafeteria, where she was working as a food-service worker.

Troy Eid graduated in 1986 and, along with Hartwell, attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor in 1991.

Troy Eid is admitted to practice law in Colorado and the Navajo Nation, and his legal practice has focused on environmental, natural resources and federal Indian law.

Troy Eid was elected to membership in the American Law Institute, and has been recognized as one of the country's top practicing attorneys in both American Indian Law and environmental law by Chambers USA and was named by The Denver Post as one of 2007's "People to Watch".

Troy Eid passed the Navajo Nation bar examination in 2005 and now chairs the Committee on Training for the Navajo Nation Bar Association, which is responsible for legal education and the semi-annual bar exam on the country's largest Indian reservation.

From 1994 to 1999, Troy Eid served as general counsel and chief operating officer of the National Information Infrastructure Testbed, an Internet technology research consortium formed to prototype advanced Internet applications in such areas as manufacturing, health care and environmental protection.

From 1999 to 2003, Troy Eid served in the cabinet of then-Colorado Governor Bill Owens.

Troy Eid chaired the Colorado State's Board of Ethics, served on more than a dozen state boards during his time in Owens' cabinet and eventually served as chief administrative officer for Colorado's $13-billion state government.

When Colorado US Attorney John Suthers was appointed the state's attorney general in December 2004, Troy Eid was considered for his replacement, along with Larimer County District Attorney Stu VanMeveren and Arapahoe County District Attorney Jim Peters.

Troy Eid withdrew his name from consideration in January 2006, claiming the 13-month selection process was taking too long.

Troy Eid withdrew in part because his wife, Allison Troy Eid, was under consideration for the Denver-based Tenth US Circuit Court of Appeals; the appointment would have created a conflict of interest since the US Attorney oversees cases that often end up in the circuit court.

Troy Eid denied that his withdrawal had anything to do with Jack Abramoff, who had recently been fired from Greenberg Traurig and who was later sentenced to serve five years and ten months in prison on numerous fraud convictions.

In March 2006, Allison Troy Eid was appointed Associate Justice on the Colorado Supreme Court, which removed the potential conflict because the US Attorney does not get involved in state court matters.

White House officials did not consider any other candidates besides Troy Eid, who suspended his campaign for the University of Colorado Board of Regents in order to accept the US Attorney position.

Troy Eid, who said he was "totally stunned" by the invitation, was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on August 4,2006.

Troy Eid served as Colorado's chief federal criminal prosecutor and represented the United States in civil cases where the government was party to a lawsuit.

When Troy Eid started the position with about 2,500 civil and criminal cases among 120 people, which he described as one of the heaviest caseloads outside of Washington, DC In addition to the cases, Troy Eid said his priorities upon assuming the office were enforcing immigration laws, cracking down on drug trafficking, and creating a cyber-crime unit to fight child solicitation and pornography.

Later that month, Troy Eid assessed an alleged assassination plot against then-Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, after alleged plotters Shawn Robert Adolf, Tharin Robert Gartrell and Nathan Johnson were arrested just prior to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Troy Eid focused extensively on Native American issues while serving as Colorado's US Attorney.

Troy Eid partnered with the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Director of its Justice Department, Janelle Doughty, to create a regional program to train tribal, state and local law enforcement officers to enforce federal criminal law on Indian reservations in Southwestern Colorado.

Troy Eid was appointed as the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado on June 9,2006.

Troy Eid persuaded them otherwise in part by hiring Cliff Stricklin, who prosecuted the case against former Enron officials Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay in response to the Enron scandal.

Troy Eid described as "unprecedented" the cooperation between US Fish and Wildlife Service agents and Mexican authorities.

On January 7,2009, Troy Eid announced he would resign as US Attorney on January 19, the day before President Barack Obama's inauguration, and run for Colorado Attorney General in 2010.

Troy Eid is married to Allison Hartwell Troy Eid, who was appointed an Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court by then-Governor Bill Owens in February 2006.

Troy Eid competes regularly in trail races, marathons and other distance-running events.

Troy Eid wrote the article "Strategic Democracy-Building: How US States Can Help" for The Washington Quarterly magazine, anthologized in the 2003 book, Winning Hearts and Minds: Using Soft Power to Undermine Terrorist Networks.