U.S. Attorney DeVillers announces management team

COLUMBUS, Ohio – David M. DeVillers, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, today announced the following appointments to his executive and supervisory staff.

Vipal J. Patel will continue as First Assistant U.S. Attorney. This position is the number two position in the U.S. Attorney's Office and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the office. Patel has been an Assistant U.S. Attorney since 2000, first in the Central District of California in Los Angeles, and since 2005, in the Southern District of Ohio in Dayton. Patel served as the district Criminal Chief in 2010. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Criminal Chief in the Dayton office since 2006. He spent his 2011 on a one-year detail to Afghanistan, where he served as an advisor to the Afghan Ministry of Justice and other governmental and educational institutions, as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Rule of Law program. Patel received his law degree from George Washington University Law School in 1991. Prior to becoming a federal prosecutor, Patel was a litigation associate and then partner with the law firm of Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft LLP (currently, Duane Morris LLP), in Los Angeles. Patel also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Dayton Law School, where he has taught International Law and teaches courses in Cybercrime and Criminal Procedure. He is a Board Member (Immediate Past President) of the Dayton Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and a former Board Member for the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton.

Mark D'Alessandro will continue as Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney and District Civil Chief. The Executive Assistant is primarily responsible for personnel and facilities issues, Department of Justice reporting requirements, special projects, and other responsibilities. D’Alessandro served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney from 2010 to January 2016. He has been Civil Chief since 2009 and was Deputy Civil Chief - Columbus from 2001-2009. Before that, he served as a criminal Assistant U.S. Attorney for Health Care Fraud from 1997 until 2001, and was the Affirmative Civil Enforcement (ACE) Assistant U.S. Attorney from 1995 until 1997. D'Alessandro is a 1975 graduate of Boston College and a 1979 graduate of the Capital University Law School. He also served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio from 1979 until 1995.

D’Alessandro will be assisted in his Civil Chief duties by Matthew Horwitz, who will continue to serve as Deputy Civil Chief. Horwitz was first named to the post in 2014. He has been an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Cincinnati since 2012. Horwitz graduated from the Ohio State University and received his J.D., with honors, from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He previously practiced at Frost Brown Todd in Cincinnati.  

Karl P. Kadon was named as the District’s Criminal Chief. Kadon most recently served as the District’s OCDETF Chief. Kadon joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2006, after serving as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in Cincinnati from 2005 to 2006. Kadon was the Chief Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor from 1999 to 2005. His prior experience also includes: Deputy Cincinnati City Solicitor, (1992-1999); Senior Assistant Cincinnati City Solicitor (1987-1992); Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor (1984-1987) United States Army Reserve, Lieutenant Colonel, Director of Legal Services, 9th Legal Support Organization.

Kadon will be assisted in his Criminal Chief duties by four Deputy Criminal Chiefs and three Assistant Deputy Criminal Chiefs. They are:

• Christy L. Muncy, Deputy Criminal Chief (OCDETF). Muncy will oversee the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force. She has served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio since 2007. Muncy was the District’s Project Safe Childhood Coordinator from 2008 to 2009 and Violent Crimes Coordinator from 2015 until 2018. Her prior experience includes serving as the First Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney from 2005 to 2007 and as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney from 2002 to 2005 in Kenton County, Ky.

• Brian J. Martinez, Deputy Criminal Chief (Columbus). Martinez is the former Chief of Staff for the Associate Attorney General of the United States (2012-2014) and Chief of Staff of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division (2009-2012). He was also an Associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP from 2003 to 2009 and clerked for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 2002 until 2003. He joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in 2014 and has served as an Assistant United States Attorney since 2015.

• Gary L. Spartis, Assistant Deputy Criminal Chief (Columbus). Spartis most recently served as a Deputy Criminal Chief in the Columbus office since 2001. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney beginning in 1987. Spartis graduated from Grove City College (PA) in 1976 and the Capital University Law School in 1979. He served as an Assistant Franklin County Prosecutor from 1981 until 1987.

• Emily N. Glatfelter, Deputy Criminal Chief (Cincinnati). Glatfelter has served as a Deputy Criminal Chief in the Cincinnati office since 2015. She joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Cincinnati in 2012, primarily handling financial crimes matters. She previously served in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Maryland, beginning in 2006. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Butler University in 1999 and her law degree from the University of Indiana in 2002 before working for Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington D.C. She also clerked for the Hon. David F. Hamilton while he served as U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Indiana.

• Timothy S. Mangan, Assistant Deputy Criminal Chief (Cincinnati). Mangan has been as Assistant United States Attorney for the District since 2009. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he was an Associate and Partner at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP (1997-2004, 2006-2009); Senior Counsel at Cinergy Corporation (2005-2006) and Associate at Bassford Lockhart Truesdell & Briggs (1995-1997).

• Dominick S. Gerace, Deputy Criminal Chief (Dayton). Gerace has been an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio since 2016. Prior to joining the criminal division in Dayton, he was an AUSA in the Eastern District of Virginia from 2012 to 2016. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy and his law degree from Georgetown University. Gerace’s other work experience includes: Associate, Taft, Stettinius and Hollister LLP (2008-2012); Clerk to the Hon. John M. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (2007-2008); Armor Officer, United States Army (1999-2004).

• Laura I. Clemmens, Assistant Deputy Criminal Chief (Dayton). Clemmens most recently served as a Deputy Criminal Chief in the Dayton office since 2009. She began her service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Dayton criminal division, in 2002. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from The College of Wooster, and received a certificate in Environmental Management from the School of Public Administration at the University of Southern California. She earned her law degree from the University of Oregon. Prior to earning her law degree, Clemmens worked as a scientist at the Denver regional office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Douglas W. Squires will continue as Senior Litigation Counsel. Doug Squires has served as the District’s Senior Litigation Counsel (“SLC”) since 2014. As the SLC, Squires is responsible for legal training and development. For nearly 20 years, Squires has been an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Columbus and has focused on the prosecution of complex cases involving white-collar crime, corruption, terrorism and espionage. Squires also serves as the office’s Professional Responsibility Officer and Criminal Discovery Coordinator. In 2016, Squires was honored with the Exceptional Service Award from the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys. In 2009, he received the U.S. Department of Justice Distinguished Service Award.  In 2001, he was the recipient of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General’s Integrity Award. From 1994 to 2000, Squires was a state prosecutor in California prosecuting violent crimes and drug offenses, and served as Interim Supervising District Attorney. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law where he teaches white collar crime and criminal procedure. He has authored several published materials on fraud and corruption, including a chapter entitled "Forensic Accounting" in Scientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases, 6th Ed., 2013, Foundation Press, a legal textbook on scientific and technical evidence. Squires received a B.A. from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and his law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Mary Beth Young will continue as Appellate Chief, a position she has held since 2016, with supervisory responsibility for criminal and civil filings in the Court of Appeals and coordination of the District’s appellate practice with other divisions of the Department of Justice. Young became an Assistant United States Attorney in 2012 in Columbus after serving two years as a Special AUSA. Prior to joining the District, Young was in private practice in Columbus and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Moritz College of Law, where she currently serves as an Adjunct Professor. Young received her B.S. from the University of Kentucky, her M.S. from Georgia Tech, and her J.D. from the University of Chicago. Following law school, Young served as law clerk to Judge David Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, then to Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office, with a staff of 115, represents more than five million people in 48 of Ohio’s 88 counties. The Southern District of Ohio includes the metropolitan areas of Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton.

DeVillers was nominated by the President in September 2019 to become the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and after he was confirmed by the United States Senate in late October, DeVillers was sworn into office on Nov. 1, 2019.

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