Judge Carlton W. Reeves has served as a United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi since 2010. Judge Reeves was previously a partner at Pigott Reeves Johnson & Minor, P.A. from 2001 to 2010. From 1995 to 2001, Judge Reeves served as Chief of the Civil Division for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi. From 1991 to 1995, Judge Reeves was an associate at Phelps Dunbar LLP. In 1991, Judge Reeves was a staff attorney for the Supreme Court of Mississippi. Judge Reeves served as a law clerk for Justice Reuben V. Anderson on the Mississippi Supreme Court from 1989 to 1990.

Judge Reeves received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1989 and his B.A. from Jackson State University in 1986.

Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo has served as a United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Third Circuit since 2016. Judge Restrepo previously served as a United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 2013 to 2016. Judge Restrepo served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 2006 to 2013. Judge Restrepo was a partner at Krasner & Restrepo from 1993 to 2006. From 1990 to 1993, he served as an Assistant Federal Defender in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and from 1987 to 1990 as an Assistant Defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia.

Judge Restrepo received his J.D. from Tulane Law School in 1986 and his B.A from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981.

Laura E. Mate served as Director of the Sentencing Resource Counsel for the Federal Public and Community Defenders from 2020 to 2022. Prior to her position as Director, Ms. Mate served as a member of the Sentencing Resource Counsel from 2010 to 2020. From 2001 to 2010, Ms. Mate served in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Washington in various roles, including as Assistant Federal Public Defender. Ms. Mate was an associate at Perkins Coie LLP from 1998 to 2001.

Ms. Mate received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1998 and her B.A. from Kenyon College in 1992.

Claire Murray served as the Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice from 2019 to 2021. She also served as Acting Associate Attorney General in 2021 and as Counselor to the Attorney General in 2019. From 2017 to 2019, Ms. Murray served in the White House Counsel’s Office as Special Assistant and Associate Counsel to the President. From 2013 to 2017, Ms. Murray worked at Kirkland & Ellis as an associate until she was elevated to partner in 2015. From 2010 to 2012, Ms. Murray served as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice as part of the Attorney General’s Honors Program and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2011. She served as a law clerk for Justice Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court of the United States from 2012 to 2013 and for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2009 to 2010.

Ms. Murray received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2009 and her A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 2004. She also received an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge in 2008 and a d.e.a. from l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 2005.

Candice C. Wong is a partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.  Ms. Wong served from 2015 to 2024 as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where she led the Violence Reduction and Trafficking Offenses Section for more than two years. Ms. Wong also served in various senior leadership positions in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice, including as acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General as well as Chief of Staff. From 2020 to 2021, Ms. Wong served as the Department of Justice’s ex officio member on the United States Sentencing Commission. Prior to entering public service, Ms. Wong worked at Bancroft PLLC and King & Spalding LLP. Ms. Wong served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor and Honorable Sonia M. Sotomayor on the United States Supreme Court, and to the Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 

Ms. Wong received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her A.B. from Harvard College.
 

Ex officio member of the United States Sentencing Commission representing the Attorney General. Ms. Milliron serves as the Acting Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice.

Ms. Milliron joined the Criminal Division in 2025 as the Acting Deputy Chief of Staff. Prior to joining the Criminal Division, she served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida (2023-2025). 

Before working for the Department of Justice, Ms. Milliron clerked for the Honorable Timothy J. Corrigan when he served as Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida. For several years, she also worked at a large nationally ranked law firm practicing commercial litigation. 

Ms. Milliron is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law where she was the Executive Articles Editor of the Florida Law Review.