JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY

Founder and President of Center for Justice and Peace

Founder and host of Justice Voices and God Unites podcasts.

Director of Public Safety Policy, Illinois Governor’s Office (2017-January 2019)

  • Public safety policy development and oversight of public safety agencies

Federal prosecutor, Central District of Illinois (1983-2015)

  • Counter-terrorism (lead trial prosecutor in Ali al-Marri case)

  • Multi-jurisdictional drug distribution conspiracies (Lead Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Attorney)

  • Financial crimes

  • Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award (2009)

Expertise: 

  • Criminal justice policy and reform

  • Anti-violence strategy

  • Investigating and prosecuting complex, multi-jurisdictional crime and criminal organizations

  • Anti-terrorism

  • National security law

Iraq

Attorney-Advisor to the Iraqi High Tribunal (November 2005-August 2006)

  • Crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes by Saddam Hussein and high-ranking members of his former regime.

  • Crimes against the Marsh Arabs, an indigenous population living in the southern marshes of Iraq for thousands of years.

Expertise:

  • International criminal justice

  • International humanitarian law

egypt

Department of Justice Attaché and Legal Advisor, U.S. Embassy, Cairo (September 2010-April 2015)

  • Bilateral mutual legal assistance

  • Diplomatic liaison and capacity building programs:

    • Supreme Constitutional Court

    • Court of Cassation

    • Public Prosecution Office

    • Ministry of Justice

Expertise:

  • Egyptian law

  • Egyptian legal system

  • Egyptian judiciary

  • Egyptian government

  • International mutual legal assistance