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Gene Anderson (U.S. Attorney) (1937–2011), U.S. Attorney Washington State 1981 - 1989

Gene Scott Anderson was born in Berwyn, Ill., on Aug. 12, 1937.

Mr. Anderson led the office from 1981 to 1989.

Mr. Anderson became the first chief of the office’s fraud division in King County, WA in 1978.

Mr. Anderson’s pursuit of white-collar cases paved the way for his selection by President Reagan to fill the U.S. attorney post.

Mr. Anderson played an instrumental role in the prosecution of a Northwest-based neo-Nazi group, The Order, that committed two murders, armored-car robberies and other crimes throughout the Western United States in the mid-1980s.

In 1987, Mr. Anderson was featured in a People magazine article for his prosecution of a so-called yuppie cocaine ring, in which his office not only went after dealers but also “silk-stocking” customers.

After leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Anderson worked in private practice for several years, taught environmental-law classes at the University of Washington and spent a year as a visiting professor at the University of California law school at Berkeley.