Former Senior Leadership March 2021

Stephanie Hinds
Former First Assistant United States Attorney

Ms. Hinds serves as First Assistant U.S. Attorney. Ms. Hinds served as the Deputy Director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force national program in Washington D.C. from 2019 – 2020 and Deputy U.S. Attorney in this district with responsibility over all intake and outreach for all Criminal Division programs in 2019. Ms. Hinds was a Deputy Chief in our Criminal Division from 2017 through 2018. Prior to serving as a Criminal Division Deputy Chief, Ms. Hinds was the Chief of the Asset Forfeiture Unit. She began serving in that role in 2004. Ms. Hinds has been a prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for 25 years. During her tenure with this Office, she prosecuted narcotics cases, violent crimes, fraud cases, public corruption matters, domestic and international money laundering offenses, among other violations. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Hinds worked as a litigation associate for Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe in San Francisco and served as a Deputy City Attorney for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office.

Joshua Eaton
Deputy U.S. Attorney

Mr. Eaton serves as Deputy U.S. Attorney with responsibility over operations and management.  Mr. Eaton was the Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney in this district from 2007 through 2018.  Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Eaton served as an Assistant General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel with the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, General Counsel’s Office from 2003 to 2007. Mr. Eaton spent his last year with the Executive Office as the Director’s Hearing Officer, presiding over Assistant U.S. Attorney and senior Executive Office employee grievance and employment termination actions. Prior to his tenure with the Executive Office, Mr. Eaton served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. While on active duty in the Army, Mr. Eaton served as a prosecutor, labor and employment law attorney, and the operational law advisor to the Commanding General of the 25th Infantry Division (Light) in Hawaii. In addition, while on active duty, Mr. Eaton served as the Chief of Military Justice and primary legal advisor to the Ground Forces Commander for the U.S. Army-led Northern Division of the multinational stabilization force deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Hallie Hoffman
Chief, Criminal Division

Ms. Hoffman serves as the Criminal Chief. Ms. Hoffman was the Chief of our General Crimes Section from 2017 through 2018, and Deputy Chief of the General Crimes Section beginning in 2016.  Ms. Hoffman has been a criminal litigator for the Justice Department for over fifteen years, beginning as a trial attorney in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section at Main Justice.  Prior to joining this Office in 2011, Ms. Hoffman was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of New Jersey.  During her service with the Justice Department, Ms. Hoffman has prosecuted matters in virtually every program area, including international organized crime, environmental, narcotics, money laundering, trafficking in counterfeit goods and obligations, violent crime, racketeering, corporate and government fraud, child exploitation, and corruption.  
 

Sara Winslow
Chief, Civil Division

Ms. Winslow serves as the Chief of the Civil Division.  She has served in this role since March 2016.  Ms. Winslow joined the United States Attorney’s Office as an Assistant United States Attorney in 2001, and served as a Deputy Chief of the Civil Division from 2003 to 2016. As Deputy Chief, Ms. Winslow supervised the Office’s affirmative civil enforcement cases under the False Claims Act and other statutes. Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office, she handled False Claims Act cases as a Trial Attorney at the Department of Justice’s Civil Division from 1996 to 2001. Ms. Winslow was a judicial clerk for Judge John M. Steadman of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals from 1995 to 1996.