Jason Reding Quiñones has resigned as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, effective immediately, after nearly 15 months in the post. The Miami-based office did not say why he left. The Miami Herald first reported the resignation.
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the departure online 13 minutes before Reding Quiñones posted his own resignation on X. In that post, he thanked President Donald Trump and the office’s staff for their commitment to justice. He described leading the office in his home district as especially meaningful.
The office has lost dozens of prosecutors and now has about half of the roughly 240 full-time prosecutors it once had, according to the Herald. It is also overseeing a Justice Department investigation into whether former federal officials conspired against Trump. Former CIA Director John Brennan, a subject of that inquiry, has denied wrongdoing. His grand jury testimony has been pushed into next year.
Under Reding Quiñones, the office brought the federal case against former U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who has pleaded not guilty to charges tied to disaster relief money. A Miami native and Air Force Reserve colonel, he had served as a Miami-Dade County judge. The Senate confirmed him 52-44 in August 2025.
