Dan Bishop

James Daniel Bishop (born July 1, 1964) is an American attorney and politician who has been serving as the interim United States attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina since November 12, 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget in 2025, as a U.S. representative from North Carolina from 2019 to 2025, as a North Carolina state senator from 2017 to 2019, as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2015 to 2017, and as a member of the Mecklenburg County Commission from 2005 to 2009.

Bishop was the lead author of North Carolina's Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, commonly called the bathroom bill, which prohibited transgender people from using public restrooms other than those of the sex listed on their birth certificates. As a result of backlash, North Carolina lost a significant amount of revenue from companies and other organizations who chose to withdraw their investments in the state.

On September 10, 2019, Bishop won the special election to the U.S. House of Representatives with 50.7% of the vote to Dan McCready's 48.7%. Bishop ran for re-election in 2022 in North Carolina's 8th congressional district, following the 2020 census and subsequent litigation contesting the maps drawn by the General Assembly. In the 2022 U.S. congressional election, Bishop won reelection to his seat with 69.9% of the vote. In 2024, Bishop retired from Congress to run unsuccessfully for attorney general, losing to Democrat Jeff Jackson.

On December 10, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Bishop as the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. He was confirmed by the Senate on March 26, 2025. He served in that position for nearly eight months until President Donald Trump appointed Bishop to become the interim United States attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.