Grant C. Jaquith
Grant Colton Jaquith is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. He served as the United States attorney for the Northern District of New York from 2018 to 2020.
Education
Jaquith earned his Bachelor of Science, cum laude, from Presbyterian College and his Juris Doctor from the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.Legal career
Jaquith served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, including as First Assistant United States Attorney, Chief of the Criminal Division, Narcotics Chief, and Chief of the Albany Office. Jaquith attended The JAG School at the University of Virginia and entered U.S. Army JAG Corps. He served in the J.A.G. Corps from 1982 to 2011. He served as Staff Judge Advocate, Circuit Judge, and Chief of Military Law, rising to the rank of Colonel.Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Jaquith was in the litigation department of the law firm of Bond Schoeneck & King in Syracuse and a Judge Advocate on active duty in the U.S. Army, where his work included administrative law, labor law, settlement of civil claims, legal assistance to soldiers, retirees, and their families, and criminal prosecutions. In 1984, he also taught Juvenile Law and Federal Income Taxation at Drury College. In 1982, he interned at the Public Defender's Office in Gainesville, Florida.