On March 6, 2018, NAFUSA President Hal Hardin led a delegation of NAFUSA leaders to meet with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC). Joining Hardin in the AG’s conference room in the photo above (left to right) are Vice President Paul Coggins, Counsel to the Board Jay Stephens, AG Jeff Sessions, President Elect Terry Flynn, and board members John Richter and Tim Heaphy.

The photo below shows the NAFUSA delegation with DAG Rod Rosenstein in the DAG’s conference room. In all three meetings, the committee shared NAFUSA’s commitment to the U.S. Attorney community, and discussed NAFUSA’s desire to support the Department in a nonpartisan manner. The group also discussed the Bradford Award; the Wales Project; and how we have an American flag flown over Main Justice when a former U.S. Attorney dies and presented to the family as a token of the regard with which he or she was held by his or her former colleagues. There was also a discussion of the limitations on our taking public positions as an organization due to our nonpartisan and bipartisan nature.

The liaison committee was first formed in 2010 and Hal Hardin expressed his pleasure that these meetings are continuing in the Sessions Administration. “All the DOJ attorneys were most hospitable and thanked NAFUSA for the meetings,” said Hardin. “Having a good relationship with Main Justice and the U.S. Attorney community will enable us to fulfill our mission ‘to promote, defend and further the integrity and the preservation of the litigating authority and independence of the office of the United States Authority…,’” said Hardin.