John Docherty was appointed a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of Minnesota on July 22, 2021. He is chambered in Saint Paul. Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Docherty was an Assistant U.S. Attorney, also in the District of Minnesota. He spent more than half his 17 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office on the National Security and Cybercrimes Team, where he prosecuted cases involving domestic and international terrorism, violations of U.S. export control law, and cybercrimes. He tried four terrorism cases to jury verdict in federal district court.  From 2006 to 2008, Judge Docherty worked for the United Nations in the Hague, the Netherlands, in the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In the Hague, Judge Docherty was a senior member of the prosecution team that successfully prosecuted Dragomir Milosevic, a former general in the Bosnian Serb Army, for war crimes and crimes against humanity for actions he took as commander of the troops that besieged Sarajevo.  Judge Docherty also served as an Assistant Minnesota Attorney General, as a Trial Attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., and in private practice, also in Washington, D.C.