NAFUSA welcomed two new lifetime members in June 2025. E. Martin Estrada served as
the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California (CDCA) from September 2022 to
January 2025. He received his law degree from Stanford Law School. After clerking for a
U.S. District Court Judge and then for a 9th Circuit appellate judge, he served as an
Assistant U.S. Attorney in the CDCA from 2007 to 2014 before leaving for private practice.
After leaving the U.S. Attorney post in 2025, he returned to private practice as a partner with Munger Tolles & Olson in their Los Angeles office handling complex litigation.

Vanessa Waldref served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of
Washington (EDWA) from 2021 to 2025, the first woman to hold this position. She is a
native of Spokane, Washington and received her Bachelor of Arts degree and JD from
Georgetown University. Following several years in private practice, she served as an
Assistant U.S. Attorney from 2013 to 2020 in EDWA and as a trial attorney in the DOJ’s
Environment and Natural Resources Division. While U.S. Attorney she chaired the AGAC’s
subcommittee on Environmental Justice & Environmental Issues. She is currently a partner
and founding member of Singleton Schreiber’s Washington office.

Additionally, Zachary Myers, former U.S Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, joined
NAFUSA in June. Prior to being nominated by President Biden for the U.S. Attorney post in 2021, he served in that office and in the District of Maryland as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for more than a decade. During his tenure as U.S. Attorney, he served as chair of the AGAC’s Subcommittee on Cyber Crime and Intellectual Property. Myers, who earned his law degree from Georgetown University, was in private practice at Baker & Daniels in
Indianapolis before starting his career with the Department of Justice. In 2025 he joined
McCarter & English in Indianapolis as partner.

Natalie K. Wight, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, also joined NAFUSA in
June. She served there as U.S. Attorney from September 2022 until February 2025. Earlier
in her career she was an attorney with the Federal Bureau of Prisons for five years before
joining the Northern District of California U.S. Attorney’s Office as an AUSA in 2008. In 2012 she joined the U.S. Attorney’s office in Oregon where she served until being named U.S. Attorney there. She is currently the Executive Director of the Northwest Regional Re-entry Center in Portland, Oregon.