Jordan S. Fox has emerged as the Trump Administration’s top choice for U.S. Attorney, and she has been calling federal judges in New Jersey to test the viability of a judicial vote to seat her, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed from several sources with knowledge of the administration’s plan.

Fox has served as a special attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office since December, when Attorney General Pamela Bondi appointed a three-prosecutor leadership team to run the New Jersey office following a Third Circuit ruling that President Trump’s pick, Alina Habba, could not continue in the role under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.

A 30-year-old Bergen County native, Fox joined the Justice Department in January 2025 as the Chief of Staff and Counsel in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, and was serving as the Associate Deputy Attorney General when Bondi named her to the New Jersey post.

Fox supervises the Civil and Appellate Divisions, while Senior Counsel Philip Lamparello runs the Criminal and Special Prosecutions Division, and Ari Fontecchio heads the Administrative Division. (The triumvirate arrangement has drawn a legal challenge that came before a federal judge last month.)

Trump has no immediate plans to nominate a U.S. Attorney for New Jersey; instead, the Justice Department wants the seventeen U.S. District Court Judges from the state to meet and select Fox for the post. That’s what happened in 2018 when Trump bypassed the traditional U.S. Senate confirmation path to get Craig Carpenito in the position.