Heather Savitz Weiss
Heather has served as a manager for the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office working in General Prosecution and State Grand Jury since January of 2011. In September 2018, Heather was appointed by the Governor to serve as Solicitor for the Fifth Judicial Circuit over Richland and Kershaw Counties. When her term ended in January 2019,…
Jack McManus
Jack McManus worked for over 25 years in the Ohio and Missouri Offices of the Attorney General. He served as Chief of the Tax Section in the Ohio AGO and the Chief of the Agriculture and Environment division in the Missouri AGO. He served as faculty in trial and deposition training programs for both states,…
James R. Layton
James R. Layton is the State of Missouri’s principal appellate lawyer. As Solicitor General, he supervises work by assistant attorneys general in all appellate courts. His personal appellate caseload is focused primarily on state and federal constitutional issues, state taxation, and administrative law. In addition, he handles and supervises some trial court matters dealing with…
Janet Drake
Janet Stansberry Drake received her J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1996. After 10 years as a trial attorney in private practice, Ms. Drake became a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Special Prosecutions Unit at the Colorado Attorney General’s office. As an attorney in the Special Prosecutions Unit, Ms. Drake…
Francis X. Sullivan
Francis X. Sullivan is the Deputy Director (Litigation) for the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation. He previously served as an assistant attorney general in the Wisconsin Department of Justice, concentrating on civil litigation in a variety of practice areas. Before that, he was an associate at the Madison firm of Bell, Moore & Richter, where…
Edith Pacillo
Edith Pacillo is a Lead Deputy Attorney General at the Idaho Office of the Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division. She has worked for the attorneys general in both New Hampshire and Idaho for a total of more than 15 years. She has litigated on behalf of and provided legal advice to numerous state agencies. Edith…
Duffy Jamieson
Duffy Jamieson began working at the Ohio Attorney General’s Office in 1989. For most of his legal career, Duffy worked in the Civil Rights Section where he litigated complex and high-profile cases, including a case he argued before the Ohio Supreme Court. He was promoted to Assistant Chief in 2005. In addition to his management…
Deb Donohue
Deb Donohue has been at the Maryland Office of the Attorney General (OAG) since 1989, in a variety of positions and currently serves as Deputy Counsel to the Maryland Department of Health, focusing on health occupation boards, litigation, and training. Deb has assisted the OAG’s Professional Development and Planning office with the summer law clerk/intern…
David Maas
David has been an assistant attorney general with the Wisconsin Department of Justice since 2008 and currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Complex Criminal Litigation Unit. David is the head of Wisconsin’s Statewide Prosecutor Education and Training (SPET) program. SPET provides new prosecutor courses and trial skills courses to less experienced assistant district…
Dan Edwards
Dan Edwards was a Senior Assistant Attorney General (retired) in the Criminal Justice Section. He received the Colorado Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Performance in 2010, 2013, and 2017 and the White Hat Award for best exemplifying the principles of the Office in 2020 for being principled, public servant, innovative, and better together. After retiring,…
