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ATTORNEY GENERAL RENO NAMES MARK T. CALLOWAY

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Attorney General Janet Reno today named Mark T. Calloway, United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, as Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) of the Department of Justice.

EOUSA provides administrative support to the 94 United States Attorneys' offices across the country.

"Mark Calloway is a tremendously effective United States Attorney, and I have benefitted from his advice and counsel as the Chair of my Advisory Committee," said Reno. "I look forward to continuing to work with him as he takes on this important new assignment."

Calloway became Chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee in August 1999. The Advisory Committee was created in 1973 to advise the Attorney General on law enforcement matters. The Committee gives United States Attorneys a key voice in Department policy.

Calloway, who has served as Co-chair of the Advisory Committee's White Collar Crime Subcommittee, has been very active in the Department's white collar crime efforts and served on the Department's White Collar Crime Council. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee's Investigation and Intelligence Subcommittee and Ethics in Government Subcommittee.

Calloway was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina in February 1994. In addition to becoming the Director of EOUSA, Calloway will continue to be the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

In June, 1996, Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., appointed Calloway to his "Task Force on Racial or Religious Violence and Intimidation." That Task Force dealt with the various issues facing North Carolina in the wake of a series of church burnings.

Calloway served in 1998-99 as Chair of the Criminal Justice Section Council of the North Carolina Bar Association, and currently serves as an Advisor to the Ethics Committee of the North Carolina State Bar. He is also a regular lecturer at the U.S. Justice Department National Advocacy Center's management seminars.

In addition to providing administrative support to U.S. Attorneys' offices, EOUSA also serves as a liaison between the U.S. Attorneys and other federal agencies and Department of Justice components.

The offices of the U.S. Attorneys conduct approximately 95 percent of the federal criminal prosecutions and 75 percent of the federal civil litigation handled by the Department.

Calloway will take office on November 8, 2000.

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