Robert E. Trono
Robert E. Trono is the current Vice President and Chief Security Officer for the Lockheed Martin Corporation, in Bethesda, Maryland.
Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Trono served as the Deputy Director of the United States Marshals Service. In this role, Trono was the Chief Operating Officer for the Marshals Service and oversaw a budget of $825 million, and 10,000 full-time and contract employees. Among its missions, the United States Marshals Service's primary responsibility is the security of 2,200 federal judges, 5500 federal prosecutors and more than 400 facilities throughout the nation. The Marshals Service also manages the United States Federal Witness Protection Program which protects, relocates and gives new identities to threatened federal witnesses.
Trono also served in the United States Department of Justice as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. Trono advised the Deputy Attorney General on a wide variety of matters and oversight responsibility over several agencies, including the Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
From 1998 through 2004, Trono was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. Where he handled a number of high-profile public corruption matters, including the successful prosecutions of four city council members. He also successfully prosecuted many violent drug enterprises, including thirty members of a gang responsible for over twenty murders.
Trono served as a state prosecutor in multiple positions in Richmond, VA. During his time as a state prosecutors, Trono prosecuted a wide variety of major felony cases and served as the lead prosecutor in more than 130 jury trials.
While in Richmond, Trono was an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond School of Law and was a frequent lecturer on trial tactics and criminal justice matters.
Trono attended the University of Richmond and the William and Mary School of Law.
