judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Judge Pryor has served as a United States circuit judge for the Eleventh Circuit since 2004. He also taught federal jurisdiction at the University of Alabama School of Law and has served as an adjunct professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Pryor served as the Attorney General of the State of Alabama from 1997 to 2004 and as a Deputy Attorney General from 1995 to 1997. Before joining the Attorney General's Office, Judge Pryor practiced law in Birmingham, Alabama for seven years at the law firms of Walston, Stabler, Wells, Anderson & Bains and Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O'Neal. From 1987 to 1988, Judge Pryor served as a law clerk for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He received his J.D. magna cum laude in 1987 from Tulane University Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Tulane Law Review, and his B.A. magna cum laude in 1984 from Northeast Louisiana University (now University of Louisiana at Monroe).

Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy at the New York University School of Law, where she focuses her teaching and research on criminal and administrative law. She also serves as the Faculty Director of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at the law school. Ms. Barkow has been a member of the faculty at the New York University School of Law since 2002 and was the Beneficial Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in the fall of 2008. She worked at the law firm of Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd Evans & Figel, PLLC, in Washington, D.C., from 1998 to 2002. Ms. Barkow began her legal career by clerking for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia from 1997 to 1998, and before that for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1996 to 1997. She received her J.D. magna cum laude in 1996 from Harvard Law School and her B.A. with distinction in 1993 from Northwestern University.

Acting Director of the Office of Policy and Legislation (OPL) in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice. She first joined that office in 2002, and has served as its Deputy Director since 2009. Ms. Morales has also served in various other capacities while on detail from OPL, including Regional Director for Western Hemisphere Programs for the Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development and Training from 2013- 2015 and Country Engagement Coordinator for the World Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative from 2008-2009. Previously, she served as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Ms. Morales graduated from Princeton University in 1993 and earned her law degree at Columbia University School of Law in 1996.

Designated Chairwoman of the United States Parole Commission effective May 29, 2015. Ms. Smoot was nominated to the United States Parole Commission by President Barack Obama and was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 16, 2010. Previously, she served as to the Deputy State’s Attorney for Prince George’s County, Maryland starting in 2002. From 1994 to 2002, Commissioner Smoot served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. Commissioner Smoot also served as a Public Defender in Prince George’s County, Maryland, as an associate in a tort defense litigation firm in the District and as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Susan R. Holmes Winfield in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia. Commissioner Smoot holds a B.A. in English and Sociology with a concentration in Legal Studies from Bucknell University and a J.D. from Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America.