Erica Hinkle MacDonald is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota from 2018 to 2021.

After earning her undergraduate degree, she spent five years working in management for a St. Louis department store.

She also served on the DePaul Law Review as a Staff Member in 1995-96 and Managing Editor of Lead Articles in 1996-97.

After her clerkship, she worked as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago; as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois; and as a law clerk to Judge Harriet Lansing of the Minnesota Court of Appeals in 2000.

[4] She worked to prosecute crimes against women and children on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, where she helped to establish a family advocacy center.

She worked to improve courthouse security as co-chair of the Dakota County Court Security Committee and improve operations and efficiencies of the justice system through leadership on the Dakota County Project Steering Committee for National Center for State Courts.

In 2016, MacDonald was elected by peers statewide to serve at the Vice President of the Minnesota District Judges Foundation (“MDJF”) from 2016 to 2018.

[6] On April 10, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate MacDonald to serve as U.S. Attorney of Minnesota.

On January 22, 2020, Barr appointed MacDonald as a Commissioner on the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice.

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