The NAFUSA Foundation board has elected Paul Coggins as the next president. Coggins was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas from 1993 to 2001. During his time as U.S. Attorney, he served twice on the Attorney General’s Advisory Council and in 1998 as its vice chair. He was elected president of NAFUSA in 2019. He is currently the co-head of the White Collar and Government Investigations group at Locke Lord. Coggins, a graduate of Yale University, Harvard Law School, and Oxford University, is a published author, currently at work on his Cash McCahill series of mysteries. Most recently, he was invited to speak at Oxford University on balancing careers in law and writing.

The NAFUSA Board recently designated Coggins and Bill Lutz as directors of the NAFUSA Foundation. They join ex-officio members Chuck Stevens, John Richter and Donna Bucella as directors on the foundation board.

Coggins praised the work of former foundation president, Ed Dowd, and called him a hard act to follow. Dowd served as the foundation president since 2019. Under Dowd’s leadership, the foundation awarded scholarships to unpaid law student interns who have performed outstanding work while interning at U.S. Attorney’s Offices and in the Department of Justice.