Kurt Alme | |
Office: | Director of the Montana Governor's Office of Budget and Program Planning |
Governor: | Greg Gianforte |
Term Start: | January 2021 |
Term End: | October 1, 2021 |
Successor: | Ryan Osmundson |
Office1: | United States Attorney for the District of Montana |
President1: | Donald Trump |
Term Start1: | September 21, 2017 |
Term End1: | December 2, 2020 |
Predecessor1: | Michael W. Cotter |
Successor1: | Jesse Laslovich |
Birth Place: | Great Falls, Montana, U.S. |
Education: | University of Colorado Boulder (BS) Harvard University (JD) |
Kurt G. Alme is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Montana for three years from 2017 to 2020 during the administration of Republican 45th President Donald J. Trump.[1] After stepping down as U.S. Attorney after the November presidential election in December 2020, Alme became the budget director in the administration of Montana's Governor-elect Greg Gianforte.[2]
Alme was born in Great Falls, Montana.[3] After graduating from Custer County District High School in Miles City, Montana, he earned a Bachelor of Science academic degree in business from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a law degree of Juris Doctor from the Harvard Law School of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (across the Charles River from Boston).[4]
Alme served as a judicial law clerk for Charles C. Lovell of the United States District Court for the District of Montana. He was a partner with the law firm of Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich, PLLP. From 2003 to 2010, Alme served in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Montana, and was the first assistant United States attorney from 2006 to 2010. He also served as director of the Montana Department of Revenue.[5]
Alme has served as president and general counsel of the Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation.