WHAT: Investiture of Stuart G. Nash  
 
WHERE: Atrium, Moultrie Courthouse – Third Floor, 500 Indiana Ave, NW 
 
WHEN: Friday, June 4, 2010 at 4:00 pm 
 
WHO:  Chief Judge Lee F. Satterfield The Honorable T.S. Ellis, III, Senior US District Judge, Eastern District of Va    

Biography:  Stuart G. Nash was born in New York City.  At a young age, he moved with his family to Glen Rock, New Jersey, where he attended the public schools, graduating from Glen Rock High School.  He attended Duke University, from which he graduated, magna cum laude, in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science.  He attended Harvard Law School, from which he graduated, magna cum laude, in 1991. 
 
Upon graduating from law school, Mr. Nash began a clerkship for Judge Sam J. Ervin, III, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, based in Richmond, Virginia.  The following year, Mr. Nash began a second clerkship for Judge T.S. Ellis III, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria Division). 
 
Following his clerkships, Mr. Nash joined the law firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, DC  Mr. Nash was an associate at Williams & Connolly for three and a half years, representing corporate and individual clients in a wide variety of criminal and civil matters throughout the country.  During this period, Mr. Nash focused primarily on white collar criminal defense, commercial litigation, and antitrust. 
 
In April 1997, Mr. Nash joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where he served as an Assistant United States Attorney until 2005.  As an Assistant United States Attorney, Mr. Nash served in the Appellate Division; Misdemeanor Trial, Felony Trial, Grand Jury, Violent Crime and Community Prosecution Sections of the Superior Court Division; and the Transnational/Major Crimes and Narcotics and Gang Sections of the Criminal Division. Among his many important prosecutions as a federal prosecutor were some of the most significant violent gang cases pursued within the District of Columbia. 

 In 2001, Mr. Nash was detailed from the US Attorney’s Office to a position as Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, advising the committee on criminal policy and assisting in the drafting of several significant pieces of criminal legislation, including the USA Patriot Act.  He returned to the US Attorney’s Office in 2002. 
 
In 2004, Mr. Nash was again detailed from the US Attorney’s Office, this time to serve as Counselor to the Attorney General.  Mr. Nash advised the Attorney General on a range of criminal matters, including violent crime, gangs and financial crimes.  While in that position, among other tasks, Mr. Nash chaired the Attorney General’s Working Group on Identity Theft. 
 
In 2005, Mr. Nash was appointed Director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Program – a multi-agency task force combining the efforts of over 2000 federal law enforcement agents and over 600 federal prosecutors with the mission of investigating, prosecuting, and dismantling the world’s largest drug-trafficking and money-laundering organizations.  Among his many accomplishments as Director of OCDETF, Mr. Nash supervised the formation of the OCDETF Fusion Center, a groundbreaking interagency information-sharing enterprise.  Under his supervision, the OCDETF Fusion Center developed from a purely conceptual stage to a fully operational intelligence center employing over 100 intelligence analysts and producing actionable intelligence reports on over 5000 targets each year. 
 
While OCDETF Director, Mr. Nash also served as Associate Deputy Attorney General with responsibility for a range of criminal issues including drug enforcement, money laundering and asset forfeiture.  In that role, Mr. Nash supervised formulation of the US government’s Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy and the Department of Justice’s Strategy for Combating the Mexican Drug Cartels.  Mr. Nash was also responsible for all disbursements from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund which averaged receipts of over $1 billion each year. 
 
Mr. Nash currently serves on the Advisory Board of the National Methamphetamine and Pharmaceutical Initiative, a nationwide organization devoted to elimination of methamphetamine and pharmaceutical crimes in the United States. 
 
Mr. Nash is married to Mary Ruppe Nash and is the proud father of three children.