EducationB.A., University of Notre Dame

Notable personal detailsJoseph Patrick (J.P.) Cooney is an attorney and former federal prosecutor who is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Virginia. He served for nearly 18 years as a federal prosecutor, including as chief of the Fraud, Public Corruption, and Civil Rights Section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and as a supervisor/trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Public Integrity Section. He was principal deputy to Special Counsel Jack Smith and later entered private practice as a partner at Gaston & Cooney PLLC.