Susan Hawk (born Susan Lynn McWithey) is an American attorney. She was the Dallas County District Attorney, elected as a Republican in 2014,^[2][3][4] until her resignation on October 1, 2016.^[5][6][7] Her opponent was Democrat Craig Watkins.^[8] She is the first female district attorney elected in Dallas.^[9][10][11] She was previously a state criminal district judge for nine years.^[12]

Raised in Arlington, Texas, Hawk attended Lamar High School, and graduated from Texas Tech University in 1992 and from Texas Wesleyan University Law School in Fort Worth in 1995.^{[12][13][14][15]}

She is a Republican attorney.^[16] Prior to being district attorney (DA), she was a Texas District 291 court judge from 2002 to 2013.^[16][17][18]

Susan Hawk resigned on September 6, 2016, two years before her term expired. In a statement she said "I believe our office is making a difference and I want to continue to do good work. But last fall upon returning from treatment, I made a commitment to step away from the office if I felt I could no longer do my job and, unfortunately, I've reached that point as my health needs my full attention in the coming months".^[19][20][21]

Hawk has been married three times. She married Bryan P. Reese, a lawyer, in 1997 at age 27 and that marriage was annulled five months later.^[12][22][23] In 1999, she married her second husband, Phillip Michael Hawk (known as Michael Hawk), also a lawyer.^[12][24] She divorced Michael Hawk four years later when she was 33 years old.^[12][14] Her third husband, John Geiser, an anesthesiologist, whom she married in 2012, filed for divorce from her in January 2015.^[14][16]