Robert C. Schupansky
Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania
2024, 2025
Rob Schupansky has been an attorney since 1998. The son of immigrants and first in his family to attend college, Rob moved to the Pittsburgh area after graduating from the University of Notre Dame to attend law school at the University of Pittsburgh and has remained there ever since. After several years working in large firm private practice, Rob began his career in public service in April of 2003, as a member of the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office.
During his time at the District Attorney’s Office, Rob was tasked with prosecuting sexual assault matters and eventually became a trial attorney in the Homicide Unit, where he served as the lead prosecutor for homicides occurring throughout Allegheny County. In 2014, Rob was promoted to the position of Deputy District Attorney, where he both supervised a team of trial attorneys and directed the Office’s first-time offenders program.
In 2018, Rob became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, where he currently serves as the Human Trafficking coordinator as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Office representative in the RISE Court reentry program.
In addition to serving as a trial attorney for over 25 years, Rob has had the privilege of teaching as an adjunct professor in both graduate and law school settings. Specifically, Rob worked as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in the Criminal Prosecution Practicum from 2016 – 2019 and currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in Duquesne University’s Forensic Science and Law Program, where he has co-instructed a course entitled Expert Qualifications since 2018. He also has been invited to assist in training law enforcement for many years.
Rob is an active member of the community and serves on the Boards of Directors of Pittsburgh Action Against Rape, a victim service agency and one of the first rape crisis centers in the nation, as well as the Jubilee Association, which is comprised of the Jubilee Soup Kitchen and John Heinz Child Development Center.
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