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.