Saritha Komatireddy is a former federal prosecutor whose career has been built on a single principle: the rule of law is not optional, and the people who break it should be held accountable — no matter how powerful, dangerous, or politically inconvenient.
A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Saritha clerked for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where she served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for more than a decade. She rose to lead some of the office’s most consequential work, holding senior positions including Chief of International Narcotics and Money Laundering, Deputy Chief of Appeals, and Deputy Chief of General Crimes within EDNY’s National Security and Cybercrime Section. Over her tenure, she conducted eight federal jury trials and argued fifteen appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Her docket reads like a counter-terrorism casebook: senior al-Qaeda and ISIS operatives and a Sinaloa cartel front man, all of whom received lengthy prison sentences. In 2018, she prosecuted a federal terrorism case against Houston resident Muhanad Mahmoud al-Farekh, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for multiple offenses covering seven years of terrorist conduct, including conspiracy to murder Americans. From 2023 to 2024, she served as Chief of Staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration — a 10,000-person global agency on the front lines of the fentanyl crisis. She has been recognized with three Attorney General’s Awards, two Federal Drug Agents Foundation True American Hero Awards, and was twice named Federal Law Enforcement Foundation Prosecutor of the Year. She was nominated by President Trump for a federal judgeship.
Today, she is a partner at Holtzman Vogel, has lectured at Columbia Law School for over a decade, and is a proud mother of four. She is running for Attorney General because, in her own words, “if New York isn’t safe, nothing else matters” — and because for eight years, the office that should be defending New Yorkers has been used instead to settle political scores. She intends to put it back to work prosecuting criminals, protecting victims, and restoring the rule of law.