Joseph H. Thompson

Joseph H. Thompson is an American lawyer who served as the acting United States attorney for the District of Minnesota from June 2 to October 10, 2025. From 2014 to 2025, he served as a federal prosecutor in that office.

Thompson was chief of the Fraud & Public Corruption section in the U.S. Attorney's Office, prosecuting fraud against state and federal government programs.

Career After graduating, Thompson served as a prosecutor in Chicago from 2009 to 2014, working on a wide variety of cases. Thompson served as chief of the Fraud & Public Corruption section in the U.S. Attorney's Office, prosecuting fraud against state and federal government programs. The U.S. Attorney's Office investigated the shootings in partnership with the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, the FBI, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and other agencies. On June 16, 2025, Thompson led a press conference announcing the apprehension of Vance Luther Boelter in the case. On July 15, 2025, Thompson announced six federal grand jury indictments against Boelter.

On January 13, 2026, Thompson and five other prosecutors resigned their positions in the District of Minnesota, reportedly due to disagreement with the Trump administration's push to investigate the widow of Renée Good, a Minneapolis resident shot and killed by an ICE agent, along with the department's unwillingness to investigate the agent who killed her.