Former U.S. Attorney Jessica Aber was found dead in her home Saturday, just two months after she resigned from her position as the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia.

She was 43.

Alexandria police said they were called at 9:18 a.m. to Aber’s home for a report of an unresponsive woman. They found Aber dead when they arrived.

An investigation is underway, and the local medical examiner will determine her cause of death, police said in a release.

“We are heartbroken beyond words to learn of the passing of our friend and former colleague,” said Erik Siebert, who took over as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia when Aber resigned. “She was unmatched as a leader, mentor, and prosecutor, and she is simply irreplaceable as a human being. We remain in awe of how much she accomplished in her all too brief time in this world.”

Aber was nominated in August 2021 by President Joe Biden, after Virginia senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine recommended her. She was unanimously confirmed by the Senate a couple of months later.

In an interview with The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press in December 2021, Aber said one of her top priorities was restoring trust.

“The most important issue facing this district — and frankly all districts — is a lack of community trust in the Department of Justice and the criminal justice system,” Aber said. “My prosecutors are doing some extraordinary work. But the community has to see us doing that justice and believe in it.”

Aber graduated from the University of Richmond, and earned her law degree from William & Mary. She joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Richmond in 2009. Among the notable cases she handled there was the 2014 prosecution of former Gov. Bob McDonnell on financial fraud charges.

Aber announced Jan. 17 that she was resigning from her position as U.S. Attorney for Virginia’s eastern district. She stepped down three days later.