Mark Wildasin

Mark H. Wildasin is the Chief of the Civil Division in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee, where he also serves as the Civil Health Care Fraud Coordinator, Affirmative Civil Enforcement Coordinator, Sanctions and Discovery Officer, and the Office point of contact for Alternative Dispute Resolution.  In addition to his work as the Civil Chief, from 2009 to 2011, Mr. Wildasin was the Sixth Circuit representative to the Civil Chiefs’ Working Group of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, and since 2009 he has been a member of the Standby Component of the Civilian Response Corps.  From October 2011 through September 2012, Mr. Wildasin was detailed to the Office of the Justice Attaché at the American Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, working on Rule of Law issues.

Mr. Wildasin has lectured at the National Advocacy Center on civil litigation issues, at the Tennessee Bar Association on investigating qui tam lawsuits, and is the author of a number of legal articles.

Mr. Wildasin is a graduate of Duke University and Vanderbilt University School of Law.  Immediately after law school, he was a law clerk for United States District Judge Thomas A. Higgins in the Middle District of Tennessee.  Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office in January 2006, Mr. Wildasin practiced law in San Francisco with Coudert Brothers and in Nashville with Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis.