Francey Hakes

Francey Hakes was appointed Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) in July 2025. Since 2012, Ms. Hakes has been a child protection and national security consultant. Ms. Hakes served as a prosecutor for more than 15 years, serving first as an Assistant District Attorney specializing in crimes against children, then as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia specializing in technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation. She has been lead counsel on dozens of trials relating to child homicide and other crimes against children.

From January 2010 to March 2012, Ms. Hakes served as the first National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction. This new position, created by the U.S. Congress in the Protect Our Children Act of 2008, was housed in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General. As the first coordinator, she was responsible for creating the inaugural U.S. strategy addressing child sexual exploitation entitled, The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and
Interdiction, which was submitted to the U.S. Congress in August 2010.

Ms. Hakes holds a Juris Doctor from Ohio Northern University, and received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science, with a Global Policy Studies Certificate, from the University of Georgia.