NAFUSA member and former board member Richard A. Stacy had his comments regarding the Colorado shootings published by The Denver Post on August 2, 2012. In an comment entitled Has violent entertainment contributed to Colorado massacres?, Stacy writes of the potential nexus between mass murder and violent entertainment.

Stacy served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming from 1981-1994. He also served as a U.S. Administrative Law Judge in San Jose, California. He is currently retired and lives in Denver, not far from the tragic events at the Aurora Theatre.

The University of Colorado announced on Friday, August 3, 2012, that it had retained NAFUSA member Robert N. Miller “to conduct an internal review in an effort to better understand the procedures and actions taken by the university and its employees in realtion to the suspect in the Aurora Theatre shootings, a former student on the Anschutz Medical Campus.” The suspect, James Holmes, is charged with killing 12 people and wounding 58.

Miller served as United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, 1981-1988. He is a partner with Perkins Coie in their Denver office. Miller routinely conducts internal investigations and advises companies on compliance programs. For over 45 years, Miller has served as both a prosecutor and defense counsel in many complex legal matters.

NAFUSA member Marcos Daniel Jimenez has joined McDermott Will & Emery as a partner in the Miami and New York offices. Jimenez served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida from 2002 to 2005. He also served on the attorney general’s advisory committee, headed the nation’s largest organized crime drug enforcement task force, and chaired antiterrorism task forces in the wake of September 11. Earlier in his career he served as an assistant U.S. attorney.

Jimenez was featured in The National Law Journal’s 2011 “Winning” issue and selected by the Daily Business Review as South Florida’s “Most Effective Lawyer” in the category of complex business/civil litigation. He is an active community and bar leader, having chaired the Florida bar’s attorney-client privilege task force and Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal judicial nominating commission.  He previously served on the board of trustees of Baptist Health Systems, South Florida’s largest health care organization.  He is currently a member of an ABA dialogue group that regularly meets with Attorney General Holder and his staff.

Born in Havana, Cuba, Jimenez is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Law.

NAFUSA member and former board member John McKay has been honored by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) with its prestigious Judge Learned Hand Award.

In annoucing McKay’s selection, the AJC stated:

In selecting individuals for this honor, AJC looks to those who have not only excelled at the highest professional levels, but who have imbued their work with an abiding sense of social responsibility. John has done both with dignity and integrity, and continues to make contributions to the pursuit of justice and equality.

John has been on the faculty of Seattle University School of Law as Professor from Practice since 2007. He served as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington form 2001 until he resigned in 2007 with eight other United States Attorney. During his legal career he served as the President of Legal Services Corporation to ensure equal access to justice under the law for all low-income Americans and held leadershiop positions at the American Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA). John was named Pro Bono lawyer of the Year in 1995 by the WSBA and [along with his brother and NAFUSA past president Mike McKay] received the Charles A. Goldmark Award for Distiguinished Service for his contributions to equal access to justice for all in 2008.

McKay will be honored by the AJC at a luncheon on September 12, 2012, at the Four Seasons Hotel Seattle. The keynote speaker will be William D. Ruckelshaus, who keynoted NAFUSA’s 2009 conference in Seattle.

NAFUSA member Mary Jo White has been retained by the National Football League to review the evidence against four New Orleans Saints players suspended as a result of allegations of a bounty system for payments for inflicting injuries on opposing players. As reported on June 19, 2012, in The New York Times article entitled Ex-Prosecutor Presents N.F.L.’s Findings at Appeals in Bounty Case, White reviewed the evidence and presented the N.F.L.’s case during the appeal hearing for the Saints players before Commissioner Roger Goodell.

White served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York 1993-2002. After leaving office, she rejoined Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and became chair of the firm’s litigation department. She is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International College of Trial Lawyers. White has served as a director of The Nasdaq Stock Exchange and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

On June 5, 2012, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the State Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination of NAFUSA board member Terrance P. Flynn as a trustee of the New York Power Authority (NYPA). Established by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1931, NYPA is America’s largest state power organization, with 17 generating facilities and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines.

“I look forward to the opportunity afforded me by Governor Cuomo and the State Senate to be a member of the Power Authority’s Board of Trustees,” said Flynn. “NYPA is instrumental to the state’s electric power system and economy, and I am honored to be soon working alongside the other trustees and the Power Authority’s senior management. I hope to apply the experiences that I’ve gained over the years in the legal profession in contributing to NYPA’s broad mission for New York State.”

Flynn is a partner at Harris Beach where he is the co-leader of the firm’s 13-office government compliance and investigations practice group. Founded in 1856, Harris Beach and its affiliates provide a full range of legal and professional services for clients across New York state as well as nationally. Harris Beach has more than 200 lawyers and is one of the country’s Top 250 law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.

As co-leader of this practice group, Flynn advises Fortune 500 or large privately held companies, including Facebook and Continental Airlines, on such matters as corporate compliance, commercial litigation, product liability, or personal injury litigation. Flynn is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo and the Federal Bar Council Foundation.

Prior to joining Harris Beach, Flynn served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of New York from 2006 to 2009. He received degrees in accounting and law from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Buffalo Law School.

On May 8, 2012, former U.S. Attorney and NAFUSA member Susan W. Brooks won the Republican nomination to replace retiring Rep. Dan Burton in Indiana’s 5th District Congressional race. Brooks finished first in a field of eight in the GOP primary. She will face her Democratic opponent in November.

For the last four years, Brooks served as senior vice president and general counsel for Ivy Tech Community College.  She serves on the State Workforce Innovation Council, the BioCrossroadsLINX Board, the TechPoint board, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce Ready Indiana Board, and the Indiana University Public Policy Institute.

In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Susan as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, where she served for six years.

From 1998-99, Brooks served as deputy mayor of Indianapolis, focused on public safety and social issues. In addition to oversight of police, fire, and emergency response activities, she represented the City of Indianapolis on numerous boards related to criminal justice, community corrections, violence reduction, race relations, and programs of the United Way of Central Indiana, among others.

From 1999-2001, Susan practiced law at the Indianapolis law firm of Ice Miller in the Government Services Practice Group.  Brooks has also practiced as a criminal defense attorney at the Indianapolis law firm of McClure, McClure and Kammen.

Susan has devoted countless volunteer hours to numerous civic and community efforts, including service on the following boards:  St. Vincent Hospital, the Children’s Museum, Women’s Fund of Central Indiana, Indiana Youth Institute, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis Board of Visitors, Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership, Junior League of Indianapolis, and Carmel Library Foundation.  She co-chaired the NCAA 2011 Women’s Final Four.

Brooks is a graduate of the Indiana University Indianapolis School of Law. She currently resides in Carmel with her husband, David, and two children.

Long time NAFUSA member George H. Lowe was appointed a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of New York in 2004. Earlier this year he retired from the bench and rejoined Bond, Schoeneck & King as of counsel in its Syracuse office. Judge Lowe had been a partner at Bond for twenty-one years prior to taking the bench. He will concentrate his practice on white collar criminal defense and complex federal civil litigation. He also expects to serve as a mediator and arbitrator, as well as performing service to the bar, including pro bono matters. He is currently co-chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Access to Justice.

Judge Lowe served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, 1978-1982, and was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the district from 1971-1976. He served two terms as a NAFUSA director and was president-elect in 2003, but stepped down when he took the bench.

This fall Judge Lowe will be a visiting professor in Odessa, Ukraine. He is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Law.

NAFUSA life member Michael Bromwich was selected by President Obama in June 2010 to reform the regulation and oversight of offshore drilling in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon accident and oil spill. He first served as the Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management Regulation and Enforcement (June 2010-September 2011), and then as Director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (October-November 2011). Bromwich served as the chief public spokesman for the Obama Administration’s reform of offshore drilling.

At the end of 2011, Bromwich left government and took a few months off to travel abroad with his wife. In April he launched The Bromwich Group , a strategic consulting firm that specializes in crisis management, strategic advising, offshore energy, and law enforcement. Click here to see recent media stories about the firm from the New Orleans Times-Picayune and The Houston Chronicle.

In May, Bromwich joined Goodwin Proctor as a partner in its DC and New York offices. He will specialize in internal investigations and white-collar defense. Bromwich intends to split his time between his consulting firm and the law firm. He is also a non-resident senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Bromwich served as Inspector General of the Department of Justice, 1994-1999. He also served as Associate Counsel in the Iran-Contra Office of Independent Counsel and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School.