Obama Nominates Nancy Ware, Norton’s Recommendation for Director of CSOSA

August 2, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today spoke with Nancy Ware to inform her that the President will nominate her for Director of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA). Ware, whom Norton recommended to the President, formerly the executive director of the District of Columbia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC).

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. Her decades of deep experience in developing and implementing programs, as well as in managing multi-million dollar budgets and employees, make her ideally suited to lead CSOSA."

From 2002-2010, Ms. 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, Ms. 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.

After Ms. 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 them to develop objectives and performance metrics.

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 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.