Anne Milgram
Anne Melissa Milgram (born December 1, 1970) is an American attorney, and academic who serves as the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration. As the 57th Attorney General of New Jersey from 2007 to 2010, she reformed the Camden Police Department and increased the use of technology and data analysis to fight crime and improve overall community safety. Early life and education. Milgram was born on December 1, 1970, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. She grew up in East Brunswick, New Jersey, the daughter of Gail (née Gleason) and William "Bill" Milgram. Her mother was a professor at  Rutgers University, and her father was an engineer. She has one sister Lynn Milgram Mayer who is a college professor. Milgram served as a congressional page while attending East Brunswick High School, building on her family's tradition of public service. She graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University, New Brunswick in 1992 with a degree in English and Political Science, where she was also a member of the Cap and Skull Senior Honor Society. She earned her Master of Philosophy in social and political theory from Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1993 and subsequently received her Juris Doctor from the  New York University School of Law in 1996. Career. Milgram clerked for United States District Court Judge Anne E. Thompson in Trenton, from 1996 to 1997. In 1997, she began her career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Milgram later worked in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, where she served as the Special Litigation Counsel for Human Trafficking and led the department's human trafficking prosecutions. Milgram was counsel to Senator Jon Corzine during his final year in the United States Senate. Attorney General of New  Jersey. Milgram became Acting Attorney General on September 1, 2006, following the resignation of former Attorney General Zulima Farber. From 2007 to 2010, Milgram served as New Jersey's Attorney General. Intergovernmental cooperation. In 2007, Milgram announced a partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF) to allow New Jersey to trace the sources of illegal firearms through real-time electronic access to BATF's E-Trace system, a national database that lists a firearm's first purchaser, date of purchase, and the retailer from which the gun was purchased. As Attorney General, Milgram directed all  police departments in New Jersey to forward all gun tracing information to E-trace to build a New Jersey database. Arnold Foundation. From 2011-2015, Milgram was head of the Criminal Justice Initiative at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. She promoted the use of data analytics and other technology to improve the criminal justice system. At the Arnold Foundation, she led the creation, development and national implementation of a new pretrial risk assessment tool to provide judges with more information for when they decide whether to release or jail people who have been arrested. In addition to developing the  Public Safety Risk Assessment tool, Milgram led the disbursement of more than $55 million in philanthropic grants and operational projects. This included significant efforts to: shift the national focus from the back end of the criminal justice system (probation, parole, and reentry) to the front end of the system (pretrial); expand the research base for criminal justice; create state and local criminal data warehouses; work cross-sector to combine crime, health, education, housing and social service data to identify and test new areas of intervention and diversion; and develop a broader strategy for national criminal justice reform. Section::::"Law & Order : Special Victims Unit". From 2013 to 2021, Milgram served as one of Wolf Entertainment's legal advisors, consulting on the hit television series "". In this role, she worked with the show's writers, producers, and actors to help portray the courtroom and the country's legal system as accurately as possible. Lowenstein Sandler. In July 2017, Milgram joined the law firm of Lowenstein Sandler as special counsel in the Tech Group and White Collar Criminal Defense practice. Academic career. Milgram was a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law, where she founded  the Criminal Justice Lab, which works to use data and technology to transform the American criminal justice system. She taught seminars on criminal justice policy and human trafficking. In 2020, as part of her work with the Criminal Justice Lab at New York University School of Law, Milgram worked with the city of Indianapolis to redefine public safety within the community, identify key data metrics of government institutions and implement changes to the ways in which law enforcement functions. Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration. On April 22, 2021, President Joe Biden formally nominated Milgram for Administrator of the Drug  Enforcement Administration On May 26, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She was confirmed by the US Senate by Unanimous Consent on June 24, 2021, and she was sworn in on June 28 by US Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. Personal life. Milgram resides in New York City with her husband and son.