Ms. Margaret Ellen Heap

In 2025, Margaret “Meg” Heap was sworn in as the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. As U.S. Attorney, Mrs. Heap is the chief federal law enforcement officer for the Southern District of Georgia, which covers 43 of Georgia’s 159 counties and a population of more than 1.6 million people. The district includes the cities of Savannah, Augusta, Brunswick, Statesboro, Dublin, and Waycross. She leads a team of approximately 70 attorneys and staff prosecuting federal crimes in the district and defending the United States in civil cases in the U.S. District Court.

On January 19, 2021, Mrs. Heap was appointed to Georgia’s State Board of Pardons and Parole by Governor Brian Kemp. She served as the Chairman and Vice Chair of the Board. 

In 2012, Meg Heap was elected District Attorney for the Eastern Judicial Circuit and served two terms.

 Meg Heap began her legal career as a Volunteer Coordinator and Victim Advocate with the Chatham County District Attorney’s Victim-Witness Assistance Program. After attending Mercer University Law School, she received her Juris Doctorate in 1992 and went on to serve as an Assistant District Attorney in the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit and the Eastern Judicial Circuit where she prosecuted misdemeanors and felonies in the Juvenile, State and Superior Courts.