Norton to Introduce President's Nominees, Ware and Hughes, for Important Law Enforcement Posts in D.C. to Senate Committee

Norton to Introduce President's Nominees, Ware and Hughes, for Important Law Enforcement Posts in D.C. to Senate Committee

November 7, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) on Tuesday will introduce to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs the President's nominee for Director of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA), Nancy Ware, and the President's nominee for U.S. Marshal for the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, Michael Hughes. Norton, who was granted senatorial courtesy by President Obama, recommended Ware and Hughes to the President to lead the agencies, both of which have been without permanent leadership since the prior administration. The hearing will take place at 2 p.m. in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Ware is formerly the executive director of the District of Columbia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) and Hughes is the Chief of the Office of Crisis Services in the Tactical Operations Division of the U.S. Marshals Service, where he directs the Critical Incident Response Team and Employee Assistance Program.

About Ware, Norton said, "Nancy Ware has spent much of her career assisting District and federal law enforcement agencies resolve issues created by the unique interlocking relationship between the District and federal criminal justice systems. She has decades of experience that make her ideally suited to lead CSOSA, including program development and implementation and management of large budgets and workforces."

Norton went on to say, "Michael Hughes' unusually broad experience in his 21 years with the Marshals has prepared him very well to lead the troubled Superior Court division. Mr. Hughes has the essential combination of field and management experience, a calm and diplomatic temperament, and strong, patient and problem-solving leadership, which he will use to improve recruitment and retention in the office."

From 2002-2010, Ware served as executive director of the CJCC, an independent agency established by Congress, whose members include the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the D.C. police chief and other city officials, the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the chairman of the U.S. Parole Commission. Before serving as executive director of the CJCC, Ware served at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as the director of technical assistance and training for DOJ's well-regarded "Weed and Seed" program, where she was responsible for helping hundreds of sites nationwide to implement strategic plans for public safety, and as the director of Program Development, National Programs at the Bureau of Justice Assistance. When Ware left the CJCC, CSOSA persuaded her to come there as the management analyst to write its five-year strategic plan, mandated by federal law. In writing the plan, she evaluated each department—from community supervision to information technology—and has worked with CSOSA to develop objectives and performance metrics.

Hughes has spent his entire career as a U.S. Marshal, joining as a Deputy U.S. Marshal immediately following college. He has held a number of positions in the field and at national headquarters. In the last 10 years, he has served as, among other posts, Supervisory Inspector, Investigative Services Division, Protective Operations Program, U.S. Deputy Attorney General's Protection Detail; Acting Chief of Field Operations, Investigative Services Division, Witness Security Program; Senior Inspector/Legislative Affairs Specialist, Executive Services Division, Office of Congressional Affairs; Chief Inspector, Investigative Services Division; and Chief, Human Resources Division, Office of Operational Staffing and Recruitment. Hughes has worked on several multi-agency taskforces and has met with key local law enforcement officials, including Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier. He has lived in the District of Columbia for more than 10 years and is committed to recruiting more D.C. and regional residents and others who desire to live in this region to the Superior Court office in order to increase retention and to improve service to the local community.

President Obama, like President Clinton, granted the Congresswoman senatorial courtesy to recommend federal district court judges and other important federal law enforcement officials in the District. She recommended Ware and Hughes from a number of candidates screened by her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission, chaired by Pauline Schneider, a former chair of the D.C. Bar and a partner at the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.