Kate Dieruf is a federal prosecutor working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky. AUSA Dieruf attended Centre College for her undergraduate degree and then attended the University of Kentucky for law school. Upon graduation, she was a judicial law clerk to the Hon. John G. Heyburn, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. She then served as a judicial law clerk for the Hon. Judge Eugene E. Siler, Circuit Judge for the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She left that clerkship to work for the United States Attorney’s Office and has been there for ten years. For six years, AUSA Dieruf has served as the district’s cyber prosecutor and Digital Asset Coordinator. She handles the district’s cyber and complex internet-enabled fraud cases. Additionally, for eight of those ten years, AUSA Dieruf has also served as the office’s Elder Justice Coordinator, helping to garner government resources towards combatting elder exploitation while prosecuting elder financial exploitation cases.