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The Office of the Federal Detention Trustee (OFDT) is committed
to improving Federal detention operations across the Nation and
within its territories.
Structure
OFDT’s organizational structure is specifically designed
to meet directed mission requirements, minimize bureaucracy, effect
integrated planning and maximize management initiatives and appropriated
resources.
View OFDT's organization
chart.
OFDT Leadership
Assistant Trustees and Senior Staff
Stacia A. Hylton was appointed
as the Federal Detention Trustee by the Attorney General on June
14, 2004. Ms. Hylton has served as Assistant Director for the United
States Marshals Service (USMS) Prisoner Operations Division and
as the Chief Deputy United States Marshal 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
USMS.
During her 25 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 USMS Court Security Programs. She served as
Incident Commander for the USMS Emergency Response Team at Ground
Zero after the September 11th terrorist attacks. In 2001, she was
the Operational Commander for the Vieques, Puerto Rico operation.
From 1983 to 1991, Ms. Hylton was also a member of the USMS 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 USMS Director as the Agency Deciding Official
for all adverse actions. In 2001, she chaired the USMS Merit Promotion
Career Board.
Ms. Hylton received her B.S. in Criminal Justice from Northeastern
University, which she attended on a full athletic scholarship.
Ms. Hylton is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including
the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service in 1995
and the Presidential Rank Award in 2007. She is a member of the
American Corrections Association and the National Sheriff’s
Association.
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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 Federal District Courts of the Sixth,
Seventh and Eighth United States Circuits.
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.
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Claudia M. Hill, Assistant
Trustee, Detention Standards and Compliance Division , commenced
her service at OFDT 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 2008.
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Scott P. Stermer, Assistant
Federal Detention Trustee for Procurement, joined OFDT in February
2004. Mr. Stermer advises the Federal Detention Trustee and Deputy
Federal Detention Trustee on all detention program matters that
relate to the area acquisition. He makes recommendations for changes
or revisions in policies and practices or other matters required
to produce the most effective management of detention resources.
Additionally, he assists in establishing requirements and general
planning objectives for meeting Federal detention resource needs
and coordinate procurement actions required to meet current or
future needs. He provides advice to officials of the components
in the solution of operational or policy problems relating to acquisition
of detention services from non-Federal providers (private, state
and local).
Since joining the Department of Justice in 1986, Mr. Stermer has
gained expertise in the financial management and contracting arena.
His assignments have been located at several Federal correctional
institutions in various positions ranging from Correctional Officer
to Assistant Chief, Privatized Corrections Contracting Section
for the entire Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
In his career, Mr. Stermer’s responsibilities included policy
development and oversight management of nationwide contracting,
procurement, operations for the Bureau; managing several contracts
for construction of detention and correctional facilities. In his
last assignment, he was responsible for the BOP’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. He was detailed to OMB to inventory and evaluate
all Federal agencies policies and guidelines pertaining to the
use of Performance-Based Service Contracting. He received high
praise from the Executive Office of President on being ability
to manage a government-wide policy program .
Mr. Stermer is a former member of the United States Air Force,
and is currently pursuing a Bachelors Degree in area of Business
Law and Public Policy through the University of Maryland . He has
attended over 600 hours of specialized Federal government contract
training.
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Aarlen Hunt, Assistant Trustee
for Budget, Finance, and Forecasting, joined OFDT in March 2004.
Ms. Hunt is responsible for overseeing a budget in excess of $1
billion. She has had extensive budget experience with the Federal
government. Prior to joining OFDT, she served as a senior budget
analyst with the Justice Management Division at the Department
of Justice from 1989-2004 where she served as deputy in the operations
group and analyst with oversight for the United States Marshals
Service and Federal Prisoner Detention appropriations. Before joining
the Department of Justice, Ms. Hunt held positions at Peace Corps
headquarters, Voice of America, United States Information Agency
and the Social Security Administration/Office of Hearings and Appeals.
Ms. Hunt is a former member of the Peace Corps, where she served
5 years in Western Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Culver
Stockton College and spent her junior year abroad in Germany at
Schiller College.
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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 HRC, 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 HRC
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, Ms. 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 Colonel in the Maryland Army National Guard and is currently
serving as the Aviation Depot Maintenance Unit Commander. She is
a maintenance test pilot for the AH-64 (Apache) and UH-1 (Huey)
and an OH-58 (Kiowa) pilot.
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Katherine (Kathy) 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, Ms. 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, Ms.
Day was a News Editor for several trade publications at Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
John Scalia, Jr., Statistician,
Budget, Finance and Forecasting Division, joined OFDT in January
2002. Mr. Scalia 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, he 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.
Last Updated:
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