Sanford Charles "Sandy" Coats (born 1971) is the former United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

[4] He then attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where his father served as dean beginning in 1996, and earned his Juris Doctor in 1998.

[4] From October 2007 to August 2008, Coats was Chief of the Major Crimes Section and also Project Safe Childhood coordinator.

[1] In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Coats volunteered to temporarily serve as an Associate U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Louisiana, based in New Orleans, from April 2007 to September 2007.

[1][5] On September 30, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Coats to serve as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.