Leslie A. Hagen, Assistant United States Attorney

Leslie A. Hagen is employed as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Michigan. She is currently detailed to the SMART Office located in the Office of Justice Programs. Most recently, she was detailed to the Executive Office of United States Attorneys where she was assigned to serve as staff liaison to several committees: Indian Country, Child Exploitation and Obscenity and Civil Rights. Her assignment in the Western District of Michigan is Violent Crimes in Indian Country where she handles federal prosecutions and training on issues of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse affecting the eleven federally recognized tribes in the Western District of Michigan. Ms. Hagen has worked on criminal justice issues related to child abuse, domestic violence and sexual assault for over 17 years earning a national reputation as a legal expert and trainer.

Prior to joining the Department of Justice, she served as the staff attorney with the Civil Legal Justice Project for the Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and as a specialist in Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice. From 1997-2001, Ms. Hagen served as the Violence Against Women Training Attorney for the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan. During her four and a half years in that position, Ms. Hagen developed a program that was recognized as "one of the best state-level training programs on violence against women in the country" by the Institute for Law and Justice in Washington, DC through an evaluation conducted for the Department of Justice. Ms. Hagen was the elected Prosecuting Attorney for Huron County, Michigan for two terms, an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Midland County, Michigan and a Prehearing Division Attorney for the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Ms. Hagen has extensive teaching and training experience. She has served as faculty at numerous seminars and has given hundreds of presentations to legal, law enforcement, service provider and other audiences. She has served as faculty or a guest lecturer at several universities.

Throughout her career, Ms. Hagen has received many honors, including a Director's Award from the Department of Justice in 2004, a 2001 appointment by Michigan Governor John Engler to the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Task Force, appointments in 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, and 2006-2007 to the position of Chair for the State Bar of Michigan’s Domestic Violence Committee, gubernatorial appointments to two terms on Michigan’s Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board, and the 1991 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award from the State Bar of Michigan.

Ms. Hagen is a graduate of Alma College and Valparaiso School of Law.