FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? OJP

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2001???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 202/307-0703

 

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF

DEBORAH DANIELS AS ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Justice Department? announced the confirmation of Deborah J. Daniels as Assistant Attorney General for the Department?s? Office of Justice Programs (OJP).? Ms. Daniels has many years of experience as a local prosecutor, United States Attorney, private practitioner and active member of her community in Indianapolis.

 

Prior to her appointment, Ms. Daniels was with the Indianapolis law firm

of Kreig DeVault LLP, where she specialized in legislative and regulatory work.? Previously, she served as the Executive Director of the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee, Inc., a not-for-profit organization which pioneered the public-private partnerships that have contributed to Indianapolis? success and which, during her tenure, extended its reach to neighborhood economic development. She played a key role in founding an Indianapolis not-for-profit which provides transitional housing for victims of domestic violence and their children.? She has served on the boards of a number of charitable organizations benefitting victims of child abuse, the mentally ill and the developmentally disabled, as well as organizations providing pro bono legal services to the poor and to neighborhood organizations.

 

From 1988-1993, Ms. Daniels served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. She was instrumental in establishing Project Weed and Seed in Indianapolis, a program that continues to be a national model in achieving Weed and Seed?s goals of integrating law enforcement, community policing, violence prevention and neighborhood restoration efforts.

 

She also served as the first Director of the Executive Office of Weed and Seed within the Department of Justice from 1992-1993, for which she received the Attorney General?s Award for Excellence in Management.? During her tenure as U.S. Attorney, she also received the Attorney General?s Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement Coordination and served on the Attorney General?s Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys.

 

Prior to her service as U.S. Attorney, Ms. Daniels worked as Chief Counsel to the Prosecuting Attorney in Marion County, Indiana, supervising the areas of child abuse, sexual abuse and domestic violence prosecutions, adult protective services and victims? assistance.

 

She received a BA with honors from DePauw University and graduated cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law.

 

Information about OJP? bureaus and program offices is available at www.ojp.usdoj.gov. Media should contact OJP?s Office of Congressional and Public Affairs at 202/307-0703.

 

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