Frank Mitchel Tuerkheimer (July 27, 1939 – September 16, 2023) was an American lawyer, legal professor, and prosecutor.
He was an associate Watergate special prosecutor and served as the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
[4] His father was a cattle merchant who fled Nazi Germany to become a New York butcher.
[4][5] His first public post was legal assistant to the attorney general of Swaziland and helped write the country's first constitution.
[6] As prosecutor, he led the investigation into illegal dairy industry contributions and was chief trial counsel in the case against John Connally.