Attorney General Merrik Garland announced on December 22, 2023, the
appointment of Jolene Ann Lauria as Assistant Attorney General for
Administration, a position she has held in an acting capacity since the retirement
of Lee Loftus, who had previously held the position, in June 2022. In this role, Ms.
Lauria is also the Department of Justice’s (Department) Chief Financial Officer and
its Designated Agency Ethics Official. She is responsible for Department-wide
financial reporting, the annual financial statemen, budget formulation and
execution, the assets forfeiture fund, and debt management. She was the lead
executive in the consolidation of seven separate financial systems into a single
modern DOJ Unified Financial Management System supporting all 40 Department
components.

Ms. Lauria has been the Department’s Controller since 2007. Prior to that she was
the Department’s Director of Budget Staff. She has held a variety of positions in
budget and financial management in her 33 years in Federal service. She received
a master’s degree in public administration from American University in 1989 and
graduated from the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in 2013 in
Class 252.