Regina B. Schofield

Regina B. Schofield (born Regina Ann Brown on January 14, 1962) is a former assistant attorney general for the United States Office of Justice Programs.

Personal

Schofield was born and raised in Bude, Mississippi. She received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mississippi College and an M.B.A. from Jackson State University.

Career

Government

Schofiled served the Bush Administration first as director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and White House liaison to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Schofield, who does not have a law degree (see http://www.andrewsw.com/news/?p=688), was confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs on June 8, 2005.She was the AMBER Alert coordinator and oversaw initiatives including Project Safe Neighborhoods, Project Safe Childhood, the President's DNA Initiative, the Prisoner Reentry Initiative, and Helping America's Youth.She announced her resignation on September 13, 2007 -- just one day prior to the release of an internal DOJ audit revealing extravagant travel and banquet expenses (see below) -- effective September 28, 2007.]

Private Sector

On October 10, 2007, Casey Family Programs, the nation’s largest operating foundation dedicated solely to providing and improving foster care, announced that it had hired Schofield as managing director of public policy. (see http://www.casey.org/MediaCenter/PressReleasesAndAnnouncements/PolicyLeaders10October2007.htm)

Justice Department expenses

An internal Justice Department audit, released September 14, 2007, revealed that the department had sent employees to 10 conferences over the last two years, with unusually high expenses, including $4.04 per serving of Swedish meatballs at a dinner. Six of the 10 conferences were approved by Schofield's department. It is not known whether her departure from the Department is related to this investigation.

The department spent more than $13,000 on cookies and brownies for 1,542 attendees of a four-day conference in 2005. A networking session that offered butterfly shrimp, coconut lobster skewers and Swedish meatballs for a Community Oriented Policing Services conference in July 2006 cost more than $60,000. (source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296838,00.html)

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