Bruce C. Swartz

Bruce C. Swartz is a Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and the Department of Justice’s Counselor for International Affairs.   He is a member of the Senior Executive Service of the United States Government.

As Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Swartz supervises the Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs, as well as the Department’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) and the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP).  In this role, he helps coordinate the overseas operational activities of the Department, including extraditions and mutual legal assistance in transborder criminal and terrorism cases.  Mr. Swartz also is responsible for the Department’s overseas capacity-building programs, which work with partner nations on issues ranging from counterterrorism, to transnational organized crime, to anti-corruption.

As the Department’s Counselor for International Affairs, Mr. Swartz serves as an advisor on international issues to the Office of the Attorney General, and chairs the Department’s International Affairs Committee.  In this position, Mr. Swartz also represents the Department of Justice in international negotiations, and in multilateral and bilateral consultations.

Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Swartz was a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Shea & Gardner.  He has held a number of positions in government service, including Deputy Independent Counsel in the corruption investigation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Reagan Administration.  In the mid-1990s, Mr. Swartz was detailed for a year to the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office.

Mr. Swartz received his B.A. and J.D. from Yale University and was a Henry Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge University.  He was a Law Clerk to Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and to Justice Harry Blackmun of the United Supreme Court.  He is a member of the Bar of New York and the District of Columbia and is a Barrister in government practice (Middle Temple, England).

Mr. Swartz is a recipient of the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award, the Department of Justice’s Edward H. Levi Award for Outstanding Professionalism and Exemplary Integrity, the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in Furthering the Interests of U.S. National Security, and the Criminal Division’s Henry R. Petersen Memorial Award.