Berg, Terrence G., 1959-

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Terrence George Berg (born August 1959) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Berg was born in Detroit, and raised in Madison Heights, Michigan until he was 8 years old. His family moved to Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan where he graduated from Grosse Pointe South High School in 1977.

Berg received his Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1981. He received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 1986. He served with distinction as the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of International Law (formerly known as Law and Policy in International Business). He served as a law clerk to Judge Anthony Alaimo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia from 1986 to 1987. He was an associate at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton from 1987 to 1989. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney from 1989 to 2012, except for a period from 1999 to 2003 when he served as Chief of the High Tech Crime Unit at the Michigan Department of the Attorney General. From 2008 to 2010, he served as interim United States Attorney. In 2010, he was detailed to be Acting First Assistant United States Attorney in the Middle District of Georgia. Beginning in 2011, until the time of his nomination to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, he was detailed to be the Professional Misconduct Review Unit at the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice.

Berg taught courses at the U.S. Department of Justice's National Advocacy Center, in Columbia, South Carolina and the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. He has been a trainer for various prosecuting attorney’s associations. He taught a Computer Crime Seminar and also Trial Practice from 1994-2012 as an adjunct professor for the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.

On April 25, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Berg to be a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, to the seat vacated by Judge Arthur J. Tarnow. His nomination was forwarded by the Senate Judiciary Committee to the full United States Senate on July 12, 2012. The United States Senate voted to confirm Berg in a voice vote on December 6, 2012. He received his commission on December 7, 2012.

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