Andrew Fois

On August 4, 2021, President Joe Biden announced Fois to be the Chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States. On August 9, 2021, his nomination was sent to the United States Senate, but expired. He was renominated on January 4, 2022. On February 2, 2022, his nomination was reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and on May 26, 2022, he was confirmed in the Senate by voice vote. He assumed office on May 31, 2022.

In 1995, Fois was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legislative Affairs in the United States Department of Justice. He had previously served as an associate deputy attorney general to Deputy AG Jamie Gorelick and as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno during which time he helped lead the enactment and implementation of the 1994 comprehensive crime act. This landmark legislation included the COPS program, drug courts, the assault weapons ban, and the Violence Against Women Act.

Fois' private practice includes a partnership in the D.C. office of Venable LLP and works as a solo practitioner. Among his private clients were the National Association of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the Drug Court Association, a leading civil rights group, a major think tank and many various businesses and trade associations. He was Chief Counsel to the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Judiciary Committee in the United States House of Representatives helping lead enactment of the Brady bill. From 1985 through 1989 he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia handling trial and appellate cases and serving as the Deputy Chief of the Misdemeanor Division. He has held the position of Senior Fellow at Globalsecurity.org, a national security, web-based think tank. Early in his career he was an assistant state attorney in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Fois graduated from Georgetown University in 1979 cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in government and history and from Georgetown University Law Center in 1983. He holds a master's degree from the University of Essex, UK in American Government. He is a member of the bar in Washington, D.C., New York and Florida as well as the bars of the U.S. District Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Andrew Fois (born June 16, 1958) is an attorney who serves as the chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States since 2022. He served as the deputy attorney general for public safety in the Office of the Attorney General in Washington, D.C. from April 9, 2012 to March 2015. He was awarded the Edmund Randolph Award, the Justice Department's highest honor for distinguished service.