Wayne County Prosecutor

Biography - A. Keith Wright
Chief of Warrants, Screening & District Courts

Mr. Wright has been with the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office since 1980.

During his career with the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office he has been assigned to the Felony Trial Section as a Docket Attorney (Trial Supervisor) and as a special assigned trial attorney. He was also appointed a special Assistant United States Attorney in the Joint Gun Task Force. Mr. Wright has served as the Prosecutor's representative in establishing both the Third Circuit Court's Criminal and Juvenile Division Drug Courts.

In 2000, Mr. Wright was named Director of the Wayne County Prosecutor's Repeat Offenders Bureau (PROB). In PROB he was responsible for the prosecution of the County's most violent felons. In this position he also coordinated the prosecution in Federal Court of repeat gun felons through the U.S. Attorney's Firearms Violence Reduction Task Force. For his work he received an award from the U.S. Department of the Treasury: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

In 2001 Mr. Wright was appointed as the Deputy Chief of the Warrants and District Courts Division. In January, 2002 he was appointed to the position of Chief of the Division Prosecutor's Office. The Division is responsible for the review of more than thirty thousand cases annually that are brought for warrant initiation. In 2003, in conjunction with the 36 th District Court and the Detroit Police Department Mr. Wright helped formulate plans for an expansion of felony arraignments conducted at the 36 th District Court. Mr. Wright was retained as the Chief of the Warrants and District Court Division in 2004 under Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy.

Mr. Wright is a graduate of the University of Detroit School of Law, J.D. 1980; and the University of Michigan in 1977.

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Kym L. Worthy

1200 Frank Murphy
1441 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI  48226

Ph: (313) 224-5777
Fx: (313) 224-0974