Biography
Kristin Mace is the Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where she supervises the work of more than 120 prosecutors. Before becoming Chief, Kristin worked on many significant cases, including those arising from the FIFA investigation, which broke new ground in combating a culture of corruption at the highest levels of international soccer with criminal charges against over 50 defendants from more than 20 countries, resulting to date in convictions of over 20 individual and corporate defendants. Before joining the Office, Kristin clerked in the Central District of California and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals before working for more than five years in the New York, Chicago and Geneva, Switzerland offices of Winston & Strawn LLP. Kristin graduated cum laude from Northwestern University School of law in 2003 after receiving her B.A. from Oberlin College in 1996.