Thomas A. Woods
Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Washington
2022, 2023
Thomas Woods is employed as the Deputy Criminal Chief for the United
States Attorney’s Office in Seattle. He has been employed by the Office since March 2007, and has held a variety of roles, including Deputy Supervisor of the Terrorism and Violent Crimes Unit and the Criminal Discovery Coordinator for the Office. Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office, AUSA Woods was an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C. He also clerked for Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and M. Blane Michael, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
