Justin A. Thornton
Attorney

Admitted: 1977, South Carolina; 1979, District of Columbia; 1988, North Carolina

Law School: University of South Carolina, J.D., 1977; University of Exeter School of Law, Exeter, England (International Law Program, 1976).

College: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., 1971.

Member: Board of Editors, Business Crimes Bulletin; American Bar Association (Section on Litigation, Committees on Criminal and Tax Litigation; Section on Criminal Justice, Committee on White Collar Crime; Chair/Co-Chair, Tax Enforcement Subcommittee; Section on Taxation, Committee on Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties); Federal Bar Association; International Bar Association (Vice-Chair, Business Crime Committee, 2003-2006; Conference Chair, 2007); International Association of Prosecutors; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Biography: Born in North Carolina in 1950.

Senior Trial Attorney, Tax Division, 1979-1987, and Criminal Division, 1978-1979, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Recipient, Outstanding Attorney Award, U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, 1984. IRS Assistant Commissioner's Award and Designation as Honorary IRS Special Agent, 1987.

Counsel to the Special Committee of the Judicial Council of a federal judicial circuit, appointed to investigate allegations of judicial misconduct by a sitting federal judge, 2006-2007.

Permanent Member, Judicial Conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Fellow, American Bar Foundation.

Charter Member, United States Sentencing Commission, Practitioners Advisory Group, 1989-present.

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