Nikolas Peter Kerest (born 1972)[1] is an American lawyer who has served as the United States attorney for the District of Vermont since 2021.

[2] Kerest received a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College in 1994 and a Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School in 2000.

[3] Kerest served as a law clerk for Judge Fred I. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2000 to 2001.

He was in private practice at Ropes & Gray in Boston from 2001 to 2004 and at Pierce Atwood LLP in Portland, Maine from 2004 to 2010.

[3] On September 28, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Kerest to be the United States attorney for the District of Vermont.