At the conference in San Diego, Chuck Stevens was elected President of NAFUSA. He will serve through the 2023 conference in Half Moon Bay. Chuck replaces Karen Hewitt who continues on the Board as Immediate Past President. Prior to being elected as an officer, Chuck served two tours on the Board of Directors so has been committed to NAFUSA for over ten years.

Chuck is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s San Francisco office and serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group. He served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California in the Clinton Administration and was a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee. Previously he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California and was a member of the Public Corruption and Government Contract Fraud Unit.

Chuck is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley School of Law where is served as Senior Note and Comment Editor of the California Law Review. He received his B.A. in English from Colgate University. He is an avid mountain and gravel bike racer, citing the rapidly decreasing number of racers in his age group as the key to his higher finishes.