30 Facts About Joyce Vance

Joyce Vance was one of the first five US attorneys, and the first female US attorney, nominated by President Barack Obama.

Joyce Vance was raised by a divorced mother in the middle-class Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park, California.

Joyce Vance was a litigator in private practice at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP in Washington, DC, before joining the United States Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Alabama in 1991.

Joyce Vance spent ten years in the Criminal Division, working on investigations including that of Eric Robert Rudolph, who bombed a Birmingham abortion clinic and killed a police officer and set a string of church fires in the district.

Joyce Vance successfully prosecuted five Boaz, Alabama, police officers charged with Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights.

Joyce Vance moved to the Appellate Division in 2002 and became the Chief of that Division in 2005.

Joyce Vance was nominated to become US attorney for the Northern District of Alabama by President Barack Obama on May 15,2009, and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate on August 7,2009.

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Joyce Vance was sworn in on August 27,2009, with US Attorney General Eric Holder in attendance.

Holder tapped Joyce Vance to serve on his first Attorney General's Advisory Committee of US Attorneys in October 2009.

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Joyce Vance co-chaired the AGAC's Criminal Practice Subcommittee, along with Vermont US Attorney Tristram Coffin.

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Joyce Vance helmed the first case of material support of terrorism in the Northern District of Alabama in 2011.

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Joyce Vance was instrumental in building awareness about cyber crime and working with businesses in key sectors on threat minimization and critical incident response and prosecuted the first-ever cyber cases in the Northern District.

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Joyce Vance was credited with pursuing public corruption prosecutions with integrity.

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Joyce Vance prosecuted cases involving corruption and other misconduct by law enforcement.

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Joyce Vance hired the first prosecutor in the Huntsville office dedicated solely to cyber prosecutions.

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Joyce Vance developed a federal, state, and local law enforcement working group to deal with rapidly increasing heroin overdose deaths before the issue rose to national awareness.

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Joyce Vance held a community summit and initiated community-wide planning to develop partnerships between law enforcement, public health officials, and addiction prevention and treatment specialists.

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Joyce Vance continued to aggressively prosecute heroin traffickers throughout her time in office, ensuring that ringleaders received sentences of more than 20 years.

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Joyce Vance established a civil rights enforcement unit in the office.

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Joyce Vance's office engaged with the University of Alabama on allegations of racial discrimination in sorority rush in the University of Alabama's sorority system when students brought to light the role of alumni in refusing admission to minority candidates.

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Joyce Vance was involved in key work to protect the rights of Alabama voters, including a settlement of Alabama's violation of the Motor Voter Act that brought the state into compliance, and a settlement with Jefferson County, Alabama of countywide violations of access to the polls for citizens with disabilities.

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Joyce Vance adopted a "smart on crime" approach to violent and recidivist crime, intending to prosecute the most significant cases facing the district so that communities would be safer.

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Joyce Vance oversaw a case in which American Family Care agreed to pay $1.2 million to the federal government under the False Claims Act.

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Joyce Vance prioritized fraud cases, prosecuting Jonathan Dunning for the $14 million fraud that diverted funds meant to provide healthcare to low-income individuals.

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Joyce Vance prosecuted a series of cases involving fraud in car loan origination.