Stacia A. Hylton was appointed as
the Federal Detention Trustee by the Attorney General
on June 14, 2004. The Office of the Federal Detention
Trustee (OFDT) is responsible for providing oversight
for detention management, and improvement and coordination
of detention activities to ensure Federal agencies
involved in detention provide for the safe, secure,
and humane confinement of persons in the custody
of the United States. Ms. Hylton has served as Assistant
Director for the United States Marshals Service Prisoner
Operations and the Chief Deputy for the District
of South Carolina. From January 2001 to June 2001,
she was designated by the Attorney General to serve
as Acting Deputy Director of the U.S. Marshals Service.
In her 24 years in federal law enforcement, Ms. Hylton
has served in field operations in the District of
Columbia, the Southern District of Florida, and the
Eastern District of Virginia. She has held positions
as an instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center, an inspector in the Witness Security Program,
and as Chief of the Marshals Service Court Security
Programs. She served as Incident Commander for the
Marshals Service Emergency Response Team at Ground
Zero after the September 11 terrorist attacks. In
2001, she was the Operational Commander for the Vieques,
Puerto Rico, operation. From 1983 to 1991, Hylton
was also a member of the Marshals Service Special
Operations Group, serving on the dive team, helicopter
repel and stabo team, and as a water survival instructor.
In 2003, she was designated by the Director of the
Marshals Service as the Agency Deciding Official
for all adverse actions. In 2001, she chaired the
Marshals Service Merit Promotion Career Board.
Ms. Hylton received her B.S. in Criminal Justice
from Northeastern University, which she attended
on a full athletic scholarship.
Hylton is the recipient of numerous awards and honors,
including the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished
Service in 1995. She is a member of the American
Corrections Association and the National Sheriffs
Association.
She and her husband, Ike Hylton, have one son.
David (Dave) Musel was appointed as the Deputy
Federal Detention Trustee in July 2004. Previously, Mr.
Musel served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Marshals
Service. He also served as a Department of Justice Trial
Attorney with the Environment and Natural Resources
Division arguing environmental enforcement cases in the
Sixth, Seventh and Eighth United States Circuit Courts.
Prior to joining the U.S. Department of Justice, Mr.
Musel was a Trial Attorney for the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) where he served as Agency Counsel,
responsible for all FEMA responsive/affirmative litigation
and administrative adversarial proceedings. Mr. Musel served
in the United States Army as both a member of the Judge
Advocate General's (JAG) Corps and as a combat arms and
combat support officer. While in the JAG Corps, he served as
Appellate Counsel with the Government Appellate Division in
Falls Church, Virginia, as well as Trial Counsel and
International and Operational Law Counsel for the 2nd Infantry
Division in the Republic of Korea.
He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the State Bar
of Iowa, the American Bar Association and the American
Corrections Association.
Dave also is the recipient of several awards and honors
including the 2005 Attorney General's Award for Excellence
in Information Technology.
Mr. Musel received his B.A. in Organizational Communications
from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where he also
received his Juris Doctorate in May 1993 from the School of
Law.
Shannon B. Brown, Chief Information
Officer, joined OFDT in February 2005.
Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Ms. Brown
served as the Chief Information Officer for the Officer
Personnel Management Directorate, U.S. Army Human
Resources Command (HRC). As the Senior Information Technology (IT) Program
Manager, Ms. Brown was responsible for requirements
analysis, system design, functional testing and operational
management of the personnel information systems required
to manage over 83,000 active duty Army officers worldwide.
She served as a principal technology advisor and
implementer for the U.S. Army H.R.C., managing the
design, delivery, and long-term strategy of IT systems.
A senior civilian leader within the organization,
Ms. Brown served as the Co-Chair for the Personnel
Transformation Working Group and a voting member
on several H.R.C. Configuration Control Boards.
Prior to joining HRC as a Department of the Army
civilian, Ms. Brown worked in the commercial sector
for IBM and America Online, Inc.
From 1989 to 2000, Shannon Brown was an active duty
Army Aviation Officer. She served in several leadership
positions around the world where she led Army soldiers,
civilians and contractors, maintaining millions of
dollars worth of aircraft and aviation equipment,
and managed large, complex aviation maintenance programs.
Ms. Brown earned a Master of Science Degree in Human
Resource Management from Troy State, Dothan, Alabama,
and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Zoology from
Northern Arizona University. She is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Maryland Army National Guard and is currently serving as the 29 th ID (LT) Aviation Security and Support Battalion Commander. She is a maintenance test pilot for the AH-64 (Apache) and UH-1 (Huey) and an OH-58 (Kiowa) pilot. Ms. Brown is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College.
Katherine A. Day, General Counsel,
joined the OFDT in February 2004. Previously, Ms.
Day served as Senior Counsel in the Bureau of Prisons'
Office of General Counsel and as Senior Counsel to
the Legal Services Corporation. She also served as
a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S.
Department of Justice and, before that, as a law
clerk to the Chief Administrative Judge of the U.S.
Department of Energy Board of Contract Appeals.
In private practice, Katherine Day was a partner
specializing in commercial law with the Washington,
D.C., firm of Wyatt & Salzstein. She also worked
as an associate with the New York law firm of Wilson,
Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker.
Ms. Day is a 1979 graduate of Vassar College and
a 1983 graduate of the Albany Law School of Union
University, where she was Articles Editor for the Albany
Law Review. Before entering law school, Katherine
Day was a News Editor for several trade publications
at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Claudia M. Hill,
Assistant Trustee, Detention Standards and Compliance Division
, commenced her service
in December 2001. From February 2003 to June 2004, Ms.
Hill was selected to serve in an acting capacity as
the Federal Detention Trustee.
Previously, she served as an Assistant Administrator
of the D.C. Offender Section in the Federal Bureau
of Prisons (FBOP) Central Office, Washington, D.C.
While there, she was selected to oversee the re-classification
and transfer of over 8,000 DC offenders to FBOP institutions.
Ms. Hill served as an Assistant Administrator in
the Correctional Programs Division, Central Office,
Washington, D.C., where she was responsible for congressional,
judicial, and public responses, supervised the FBOP
Victim Witness Notification Program. She also supervised
the FBOP International Prisoner Treaty Transfer Program,
and Unit Management Policy Development and Training
Division.
During her eleven-year career with the FBOP, Mrs.
Hill was a Case Management Coordinator at the U.S.
Penitentiary Administrative Maximum in Florence,
Colorado, the FBOP's highest security level facility,
and Allenwood Low Security Federal Correctional Facility
in Allenwood, Pennsylvania. She was responsible for
Unit Management Policy Development and staff training
during the activation of these FBOP facilities. As a Case Manager at the Oakdale Federal Correctional
Facility, Oakdale, Louisiana, she was responsible
for inmate programming, release preparation, and
parole/immigration reviews.
Ms. Hill is the recipient of numerous OFDT and FBOP
awards from 1991 through 2004.
Aarlen Hunt,
Assistant Trustee, Budget, Finance and Forecasting Division.
John Scalia, Jr., Statistician, Budget,
Finance and Forecasting Division, joined OFDT in January
2002. He collects and analyzes data on persons detained
by Federal authorities and Federal detention programs
and develops mathematical and statistical models to
forecast future populations of criminal detainees. While
at OFDT, Mr. Scalia managed the development of the National
Repository for Detention Space Availability, an
Internet-based database of non-federal detention facilities
available for use by federal law enforcement to house
federal prisoners.
Previously, Mr. Scalia served as a statistician at
the Bureau of Justice Statistics, where he authored
14 agency reports addressing various aspects of the
federal criminal justice system. Prior to that, he
served at the United States Sentencing Commission,
where his responsibilities included the development
of a methodology to assess the impact of amendments
to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on the federal
prison population.
Mr. Scalia received a Master of Science in Forensic
Sciences in 1992 from the George Washington University
in Washington, D.C., where he also received a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Sociology in 1989.
Scott P. Stermer,
Assistant Trustee, Procurement Division
, joined OFDT in February 2001.
Previously, Mr. Stermer served as the Assistant Chief,
Privatized Corrections Contracting Section for the
Federal Bureau of Prisons, where he was responsible
for the Bureau's contractual agreements relating
to private sector detention and correctional service
contracts for federal prisoners.
In 2000, Mr. Stermer participated in the Office of
Budget and Management (OMB), Office of Federal Procurement
Policy's Acquisition Exchange Program, where he
evaluated all Federal agencies policies and guidelines
pertaining to the use of Performance-Based Service
Contracting.
Since he joined the Department of Justice in 1986
as a Correctional Officer,
Mr. Stermer has served at several federal correctional
institutions in various positions. His responsibilities
included policy development and oversight management
of nationwide contracting, procurement and operations.
He managed several contracts for construction of
detention and correctional facilities.
In 1997, Mr. Stermer received a Federal Energy and
Water Management Award for the first energy saving
performance-based share saving contract.
Mr. Stermer is a former member of the United States
Air Force, where he received the Air Force's Achievement
Medal for Meritorious Service in 1983. He is currently
pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in area of Business
Law and Public Policy through the University of Maryland.
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