Deputy Director of the National State Attorneys General Program, and a senior staff member in the Iowa Attorney General’s office. Tam Ormiston joined Iowa's Consumer Protection Division in 1978 and became the director of its Farm Division in 1983. He took a leave of absence from the Attorney General’s Office in 1988 to become a consultant for the Korea office of The Asia Foundation, where he served as advisor to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Supreme Court, and the newly-formed Constitutional Court. Mr. Ormiston stayed in Seoul as the Korea Representative for the Foundation and as a law consultant to its fifteen field offices. In 1994 he founded its Russia and Central Asia programs and served as the Law Advisor for the Foundation in its headquarters in San Francisco. He returned to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office in 1998 as Chief Policy Deputy Attorney General, where he has served as the Consumer Advocate for the State of Iowa and oversaw the Consumer Protection Division and the Department of Human Services/ Board of Regents Division. He has served in a variety of capacities since then. Mr. Ormiston received the Marvin Award from the National Association of Attorneys General. He is a 1974 graduate of the University of Iowa School of Law, where he simultaneously earned a Master’s Degree in American Studies. He also participated in a joint Fulbright program at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.
Cindy M. Lott serves as lead counsel on the Charities Regulation and Oversight Project at the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School. The Charities Project provides a resource to state attorneys general in fulfilling charities enforcement responsibilities, facilitates communication among attorneys general, and institutionalizes the dialogue between attorneys general, the regulated communities and legal scholars specializing in charities and nonprofit studies. In 2006 and 2007, she was a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, co-teaching an advanced research seminar on state attorneys general. In addition, for the past two years Lott was a visiting clinical professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she was the developer and director of the Nonprofit Legal Clinic, a clinic focused on the nature of general counsel and transactional practice within the context of nonprofits. Previously, Lott’s private practice focused on legal strategy for national advocacy groups and non-profit organizations, particularly with respect to state attorney general, non profit, and state policy issues.
Lott served as Chief Counsel to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston and was Deputy Counsel to the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Lott has worked at large firms in several major cities. She also served as Chief Counsel for Advisory Services in the Indiana Attorney General's office, and prior to that position was Section Chief for Administrative and Regulatory Litigation in that office. Her areas of practice have included constitutional, administrative and regulatory, business fraud, compliance, and employment litigation and advisory issues.
Lott is a 1993 graduate of the Yale Law School and clerked for the United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Indiana and Massachusetts.
Julie Simone Brill is a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School. She is Senior Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Consumer Protection for the State of North Carolina. Previously she was an Assistant Attorney General of the Consumer Protection Division of the Vermont Attorney General's Office. She develops and executes state litigation, legislative and regulatory strategies in a wide variety of areas affecting consumers and businesses, including predatory lending, mortgage fraud, privacy, credit reporting, financial services, tobacco, food, drugs, utilities and antitrust. She has been the recipient of several honors such as the National Association of Attorneys General Privacy Subcommittee Award in 2001, for drafting proposed NAAG privacy principles, Privacy International's 2001 Brandeis award for work at state and federal levels on privacy issues, and the National Association of Attorneys General Marvin Award in 1995, for demonstrated outstanding leadership, expertise and achievement in advancing the goals of NAAG. Brill has written on a wide range of federal, state and international topics, including privacy and pharmaceuticals, and her articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times and The Nation. Brill organized the National State Attorneys General Program's Pharmaceutical Law Conference in May 2007, at which she was a principal speaker, and she also presented at the NSAGP's Consumer Protection and Antitrust Leadership Conference in March 2007. Brill also organized the National Association of Attorneys General Presidential Initiative Conference on pharmaceutical issues. Brill holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and she received her B.A. from Princeton University.
John Knox Walkup is a partner in the Nashville, Tennessee office of the law firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP and is the chairman of the Firm’s Governmental Affairs Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in the areas of administrative and regulatory law and trial and appellate litigation. Mr. Walkup is the former Attorney General of Tennessee, having been appointed to that position by the Tennessee Supreme Court as provided in the Tennessee Constitution. Immediately prior to his term as Attorney General, he was in private practice in Nashville. He had also previously served as Solicitor General of Tennessee, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Chief Counsel of a United States Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee and as Legislative Director for a U.S. Senator. Mr. Walkup taught at Vanderbilt Law School from 1993 to 1995. He has lectured at Tennessee Judicial Conferences and Tennessee Bar Association seminars. He was chairman of the National Association of Attorneys General Supreme Court Committee. He served as a member of the Tennessee Code Commission and the Tennessee Judicial Council. He is a former board member and former Chairman of the Board of Montreat (Presbyterian) Conference Center in Montreat, North Carolina. He was presented the Distinguished Alumnus Award at Centre College in 1997. He received his B.A. degree from Centre College of Kentucky in 1969 and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1972.
Lead Adjunct Research Scholar, North Carolina Predatory Lending Law Project.
Patricia A. McCoy is an authority on financial services regulation and consumer lending. She is the George J. and Helen M. England Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut, where she heads the law school’s Insurance Law Center. Before entering academe, she was a partner at the law firm of Mayer, Brown in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in complex securities, banking and commercial constitutional litigation. In 2002-2003, she was a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Economics Department. Her research examines regulation of the banking, securities, insurance, and pension industries. She has two books to her credit: Banking Law Manual: Federal Regulation of Financial Holding Companies, Banks and Thrifts (2d ed. 2000 & cum. supp.) and Financial Modernization After Gramm-Leach-Bliley (2002). Her new book, The Subprime Virus, is forthcoming in 2010 with Oxford University Press.
James T. Kilbreth is the former Chief Deputy Attorney General for the State of Maine and a Partner in the Environmental Department of a Portland, Maine law firm. He received his B.A., cum laude, from Harvard College in 1970, M.A. from Northeastern University in 1974, and J.D. magna cum laude from American University School of Law in 1976. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (R), as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA, and as one of New England's Superlawyers. In addition to serving as Chief Deputy, where he supervised all major civil and criminal enforcement activities within the Attorney General's Office, he was also the Deputy Attorney General responsible for all the State's civil litigation., and as the principal Assistant Attorney General representing the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Prior to his work at the Attorney General's Office, he was associated with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.
Jessica Teague is currently a graduate student at Columbia University pursuing a PhD in English & Comparative Literature with a Jazz Studies concentration. Her interest in law and public policy attracted her to the National State Attorneys General Program in 2007, where she currently manages staffing, budgets, grants, and other strategic initiatives. She graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 2004, with a degree in American Literature and Culture and Political Science.
Rachel Teitelbaum joined the National State Attorneys General Program as an Administrative Coordinator for the Program’s Charities Law Project in 2008. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley with a major in Sociology. In addition to her studies at Berkeley, Rachel studied abroad both in Spain and Italy while obtaining her degree. Rachel’s interest in the public sector and public interest law particularly stems from her experience interning at The Death Penalty Clinic at U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, School of Law.
Jonathan Comas joined the National State Attorneys General Program in October 2008 as an Administrative Coordinator. Originally from Miami, Florida, Jon graduated in 2008 from New York University with a B.A. in English and a minor in Creative Writing. He previously worked in media relations at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies and as an intern at TPM Media.
Deputy Director of the National State Attorneys General Program, and a senior staff member in the Iowa Attorney General’s office. Tam Ormiston joined Iowa's Consumer Protection Division in 1978 and became the director of its Farm Division in 1983. He took a leave of absence from the Attorney General’s Office in 1988 to become a consultant for the Korea office of The Asia Foundation, where he served as advisor to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Supreme Court, and the newly-formed Constitutional Court. Mr. Ormiston stayed in Seoul as the Korea Representative for the Foundation and as a law consultant to its fifteen field offices. In 1994 he founded its Russia and Central Asia programs and served as the Law Advisor for the Foundation in its headquarters in San Francisco. He returned to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office in 1998 as Chief Policy Deputy Attorney General, where he has served as the Consumer Advocate for the State of Iowa and oversaw the Consumer Protection Division and the Department of Human Services/ Board of Regents Division. He has served in a variety of capacities since then. Mr. Ormiston received the Marvin Award from the National Association of Attorneys General. He is a 1974 graduate of the University of Iowa School of Law, where he simultaneously earned a Master’s Degree in American Studies. He also participated in a joint Fulbright program at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.
Cindy M. Lott serves as lead counsel on the Charities Regulation and Oversight Project at the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School. The Charities Project provides a resource to state attorneys general in fulfilling charities enforcement responsibilities, facilitates communication among attorneys general, and institutionalizes the dialogue between attorneys general, the regulated communities and legal scholars specializing in charities and nonprofit studies. In 2006 and 2007, she was a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, co-teaching an advanced research seminar on state attorneys general. In addition, for the past two years Lott was a visiting clinical professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she was the developer and director of the Nonprofit Legal Clinic, a clinic focused on the nature of general counsel and transactional practice within the context of nonprofits. Previously, Lott’s private practice focused on legal strategy for national advocacy groups and non-profit organizations, particularly with respect to state attorney general, non profit, and state policy issues.
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