Erin Nealy Cox
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas
In office
November 17, 2017 – January 8, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byJohn Parker
Succeeded byLeigha Simonton
Personal details
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Pascagoula, Mississippi
EducationUniversity of Texas at Austin (BBA)
Southern Methodist University (JD)

Erin Nealy Cox (born 1970) is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas from 2017 to 2021. She was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2017.[1] After the 2020 election, she resigned effective January 9, 2021, and joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner on June 23, 2021.[2]

Career

Nealy Cox graduated from the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law after receiving her business degree from the University of Texas. She clerked for Henry Anthony Politz when he was serving as Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Barefoot Sanders when he was serving as a United States District Judge in the Northern District of Texas.[3][4] From 1999 to 2008, Nealy Cox was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Texas. In 2004 and 2005, she was chief of staff and senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy.[5] Nealy Cox left the Department of Justice in 2008 and joined Stroz Friedberg, a cybersecurity and investigations consulting firm, where she established and led the company's Dallas office.[5] Prior to assuming the role of United States Attorney, she was a senior advisor at McKinsey & Company in the cybersecurity and risk practice. She is on the board of directors of Sally Beauty Holdings.[6]

U.S. Attorney

As U.S. Attorney in the northern district of Texas, Nealy Cox directed resources to crack down on sex trafficking, domestic violence, public corruption, gun crimes, and healthcare fraud. She advocated for bail reform and was instrumental in creating a DOJ-wide initiative aimed at prosecuting domestic abusers.[7] She was co-chair of the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Anti-Government Extremism, and she served on the Justice Department's Religious Liberty Task Force. She was one of five U.S. Attorneys who advised the China Initiative, a group of senior Justice Department officials tasked with fighting state-sponsored economic espionage.[5] She served as chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee (AGAC), a body of 15 U.S. Attorneys selected by the Attorney General to advise on national priorities, including policy and operational issues. She also led the AGAC task force on domestic violence and firearms crimes.[5] While U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, the Justice Department's Criminal Division in Washington, D.C., oversaw the investigation and prosecution against Boeing for the 737 MAX disaster.[8] The investigation resulted in a Delayed Prosecution Agreement filed in the Northern District of Texas that included a total criminal monetary penalty and compensation of over $2.5 billion, composed of a criminal monetary penalty of $243.6 million and compensation to Boeing customers and the families of crash victims.[9] Some relatives of crash victims were initially critical of the agreement because it did not result in prosecution of Boeing executives. On December 17, 2020, Nealy Cox announced her resignation effective January 8, 2021.[10] On July 23, 2021, she became a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, Boeing’s lead corporate criminal defense law firm.[11] On January 20, 2022, attorneys for 737 crash victims voluntarily requested removal of all claims about Nealy Cox from the court record, writing that they “acknowledge there is no basis upon which to allege any impropriety, ethical or otherwise, on [Cox's] part.” That motion was granted on January 21, 2022.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Thomas, David (2021-06-23). "Kirkland adds ex-Dallas U.S. attorney in latest Texas hire". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  2. ↑ "Erin Nealy Cox, Former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, to Join Kirkland & Ellis as Partner". kirkland.com. June 23, 2021.
  3. ↑ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Seventh Wave of United States Attorney Nominations". whitehouse.gov. September 22, 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017 – via National Archives.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ↑ Diaz, Kevin (September 22, 2017). "White House names Erin Nealy Cox as top federal prosecutor in Dallas". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Krause, Kevin (December 17, 2020). "U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox resigns as North Texas' top federal law enforcement official". Dallas Morning News.
  6. ↑ Silverstein, Ed (February 8, 2018). "Erin Nealy Cox: How Cyber Background Helps as US Attorney". Law.com.
  7. ↑ "For outgoing U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox, 'justice for all' is more than a pledge — it's a promise". Dallas Morning News. December 27, 2020.
  8. ↑ Rodrigo, Chris (March 20, 2019). "FBI joins criminal probe of Boeing 737 Max certification: report". The Hill.
  9. ↑ "Boeing Charged with 737 Max Fraud Conspiracy and Agrees to Pay over $2.5 Billion". justice.gov. January 7, 2021.
  10. ↑ "U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox to Depart Justice Department" (Press release). United States Attorney's Office. December 17, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Boeing's former chief technical pilot on 737 MAX indicted on fraud charges". The Seattle Times. 2021-10-14. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  12. ↑ "United States v. The Boeing Company (4:21-cr-00005) Doc. 54". CourtListener.com. January 7, 2021.
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