Pursuant to our bylaws the NAFUSA board has elected lifetime member and current secretary John Richter as president elect to replace Ken Wainstein.

Richter served as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, 2005-2009, and the acting assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2009, he received the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Inspector General’s Award for Combating Medicare and Medicaid Fraud.

Richter also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Georgia and Oklahoma, where he investigated and prosecuted white collar and public corruption cases. He also served as an assistant district attorney in Georgia. While at King & Spalding’s Atlanta office from 1994 to 1998, Richter represented individual and institutional clients in securities and other commercial litigation matters. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law.

He is currently a partner at King & Spalding.

Lifetime member Catherine Hanaway has been elected as secretary of NAFUSA.  Catherine is the chair of the Husch Blackwell firm based in St. Louis.  Catherine was US Attorney in the ED of Missouri and Speaker of Missouri’s House of Representatives.

Hanaway has led Husch Blackwell litigation teams on some of the most sensitive and commercially significant matters handled by the firm, including criminal and civil investigations, complex commercial litigation and regulatory enforcement actions. As U.S. Attorney, she supervised more than 4,000 criminal, affirmative and defensive civil cases and personally tried cases to jury verdicts. She also supervised and assisted in the development of cutting-edge theories of criminal prosecution.

Hanaway holds a B.A. from Creighton University and received a J.D. from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.

Erin Nealy Cox will replace Catherine Hanaway as a board member in the class of 2025.  Cox was the United States Attorney for the ND of Texas as served as the chair of the AGAC.  Cox, then chair of the AGAC, participated in the NAFUSA webinar which was held in October 2020.  Cox is now a partner in Kirkland & Ellis.

Cox received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and her B.B.A. in finance from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of the Texas and New York Bar Associations.