NAFUSA welcomed several new members in August, all of whom served during the Biden
Administration. We look forward to having them as members and hope to see them in
October at the NAFUSA annual conference at the Willard!

Erek Barron was the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland from 2021 to 2025, the first
African American to hold that position. Prior to his nomination by President Biden, Barron
served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, while practicing law as a private
attorney. Before entering elected office, he served as a prosector at the state and federal
levels and worked as a policy advisor in the U.S. Senate. He joined the law firm Mintz,
Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo in May 2025.

Delia L. Smith served as the U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands from 2022 to April 2025. Her
career prior to that included serving as law clerk for Judge Ishmael Meyers on the U.S.
Virgin Islands Superior Court; serving as an assistant attorney general in the Office of the
Attorney General for the Virgin Islands; a detail as a trial attorney in the Office of
International Affairs at DOJ; and from 2005 until sworn in as U.S. Attorney, serving as an
AUSA in that office.

Sayler A. Fleming served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri from her
appointment by then-Attorney General William Barr in December 2020 until her resignation
on June 3, 2025. A 2006 Vanderbilt University law graduate, she clerked for Missouri
Supreme Court Justice, Stephen Limbaugh, Jr. and was later an associate at Bryan CaveLeighton Paisner before her appointment at U.S. Attorney. While U.S. Attorney she co-
chaired the Attorney General’s Child Exploitation Working Group.

Joshua (Josh) Hurwit served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho from 2022 to 2025.
After graduating from Harvard in 2006, he worked as an associate at Paul Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison in New York City before becoming a judicial law clerk for Federal Judge
Naomi Reice Buchwald for a year. He was in private practice from 2008 until 2011 before
joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Idaho as an AUSA in 2012. In 2022 he was nominated
and later confirmed as U.S. Attorney for that office and served until his resignation in
February 2025.

Philip R. Sellinger served as U.S. attorney for District of New Jersey from 2021 to 2025.
Following graduation from New York University School of Law in 1979, he served as a
judicial law clerk for a year before becoming an AUSA in New Jersey from 1981 to 1984.
From 1984 to 2002, he worked at Sills Cummis & Gross until becoming a co-managing
partner of Greenberg Traurig in 2002. He was sworn in as U.S. Attorney for the District of NJin December 2021 and served until his resignation in January 2025. He is currently co-
chair, Global Litigation at Greenberg Traurig.