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April 25, 2008

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF ANNEMARIE CONROY AS LAW ENFORCEMENT COORDINATOR

SAN FRANCISCO – United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced the appointment of Annemarie Conroy, J.D., M.A., as Law Enforcement Coordinator for the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California. As Law Enforcement Coordinator, Ms. Conroy will chair the District’s Law Enforcement Coordination Committee and direct the District’s Project Safe Neighborhood and Weed and Seed programs. Ms. Conroy’s primary responsibility will be to maximize the use of federal resources to meet crime abatement objectives of mutual interest to federal, state and local agencies. She will serve as the United States Attorney’s chief liaison to local law enforcement officials, including District Attorneys, County Sheriffs and Police Chiefs throughout the Northern District of California, as well as to State of California and federal law enforcement agencies.

“I am delighted Annemarie Conroy has joined our team. I have known Annemarie for many years to be a smart, effective, capable and energetic public servant. She brings to our office her extensive knowledge of local and regional government derived from over a decade of working in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Her impressive academic and professional credentials will be a great addition to our office,” United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello said.

Ms. Conroy served as the Executive Director of Emergency Services and Homeland Security and as Director of Regional Homeland Security Programs for the City and County of San Francisco from July 2004 to January 2007. During her tenure, she overhauled the city’s all hazards Emergency Operations Plan for the first time in 10 years, created the first Earthquake Plan for a major American city, and implemented a myriad of new programs from citizen preparedness to increased terrorism training for first responders. She led the effort to create the first-in-the-nation Regional Emergency Coordination Plan for the ten Bay Area counties including the three cities of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. Ms. Conroy oversaw the creation and implementation of the Bay Area Super Urban Area – a consolidation of the ten counties and three cities for purposes of implementing Homeland Security planning and programs, the federal Urban Area Security Initiative and other grant funding. She was selected as Chair of the entity by her peers in the region. She also received the Diamond Award from the California Emergency Services Association for Excellence in Emergency Management and Regional Planning.

Ms. Conroy has served on a number of committees dedicated to providing emergency services and focused on Homeland Security. She was chosen by the Department of Homeland Security to attend the prestigious Masters of Arts in Homeland Defense and Security program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California which she completed in March, 2008. Ms. Conroy is also a member of the California State Bar. She received her Juris Doctorate from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of California, Berkeley

Ms. Conroy has served as Vice President of the San Francisco Fire Commission, as a member of the San Francisco Police Commission, and as a County Transportation Authority Commissioner. She was selected in 2005 and 2006 by San Francisco Business Times as one of the “15 Most Influential Women in Bay Area Government.”

As a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1992 to 1995 Ms. Conroy served as Vice Chair of the Health, Public Safety and Environment Committee and as a member of the Economic Vitality and Social Policy Committee, and served as a member of the Mayor’s Task Force to Reform the Juvenile Justice System under the leadership of Justice Harry Low. Ms. Conroy produced several important pieces of legislation and uncovered millions of dollars in government waste in the city’s Clean Water Program, Health Service System and other departments including abuses in the overtime and workers compensation programs. She is the author of the city’s “Full Force” Charter Amendment which requires full staffing in the San Francisco Police Department, and of the San Francisco’s False Claims Act which penalizes contractors who overcharge the city. She developed the city’s first comprehensive Graffiti Abatement Program and authored legislation creating the Family Violence Prevention Council designed to coordinate a citywide response to domestic violence. She was honored with the President’s Award by the Commission on the Status of Women for her work in the area of domestic violence.

From 1998 to 2004, Ms. Conroy served as Executive Director of the Treasure Island Development Authority. In this role, she oversaw all short and long term development planning for the closing of the former military base, and oversaw negotiations with the US Navy and the Department of Defense for conversion of the property to civilian use, including environmental remediation. She created and implemented a housing agreement to open former military housing to thousands of new residents which, on the one hand, provided $50 million in net revenue to the Authority over seven years, and, on the other, made 222 units available to formerly homeless families at no cost to them. She oversaw all aspects of running, in effect, a small city from transportation and infrastructure development to providing emergency, police and fire services.

Ms. Conroy is expected to officially join the United States Attorney’s Office in July once her background investigation has been completed.

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