The U.S. Senate late Thursday confirmed Atlanta attorney and former federal prosecutor Byung J. “BJay” Pak as the new U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta.

Pak, a partner at Chalmers Pak Burch & Adams who emigrated with his family from Seoul, South Korea, when he was 9, becomes the state's first Asian-American U.S. attorney.

The Daily Report named Pak, now 42, in 2011 as one of its “Rising Stars.”