The NAFUSA Board of Directors has selected Wendy Goggin to be our next Executive Director effective July 1, replacing Rich Rossman who retired in April after serving honorably in that position for over eleven years. Rich will remain an active and valued member of NAFUSA.

Wendy retired from the Department of Justice in 2018 and moved back to Nashville after serving as Chief Counsel for the Drug Enforcement Administration for over 14 years. She led a nationwide network of over a hundred attorneys, developed a highly successful Division Counsel Program and managed a multi-million dollar budget, earning a Presidential Rank Award. She served as Attorney General-appointed, and then Court-appointed, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee during the Clinton Administration after previously serving as an Assistant United States Attorney in that office, first in the civil division and then in the criminal division where she prosecuted public corruption and white collar crimes. Prior to being appointed DEA’s Chief Counsel, she served as Counsel for EOUSA’s Office of Legal Programs and Policy.

Wendy is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law and received a B.S. in Communications, journalism major, from UT. Go Vols!