After a whirlwind tenure, Damian Williams, the Manhattan U.S. attorney — the most visible and most famously independent federal prosecutor in the country — is on his way out under the incoming

If confirmed by the Senate, Clayton would lead one of the most important federal prosecutor offices in the country.

President-elect Trump nominated the former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, to serve as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.