Regina B. Schofield

Regina B. Schofield, born "Regina Ann Brown," (born January 14, 1962), a former assistant attorney general for the United States Office of Justice Programs.

Personal

Schofield was born and raised in Bude, Mississippi. She received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mississippi College and an M.B.A. from Jackson State University.

Career

Government

Schofield was confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs on June 8, 2005. She announced her resignation on September 13, 2007, effective September 28, 2007.

Private Sector

On October 10, 2007, the National Foster Care Foundation's Casey Family Programs, which claims to the nation’s largest operating foundation dedicated solely to providing and improving foster care, announced that it had hired Schofield as managing director of public policy. (see http://www.casey.org/MediaCenter/PressReleasesAndAnnouncements/PolicyLeaders10October2007.htm)

Controversies

Justice Department travel

An internal Justice Department audit, release September 14, 2007, revealed that the department had sent employees to 10 conferences over the last two years, with unusually high expenses, including $5.00 per meatball at a dinner. Six of the 10 conferences were approved by Schofield's department. It is not known whether her departure from the Department is related to this investigation, although it is considered by some as a major factor in her sudden resignation.

In addition to the meatball, the audit found items that rounded out later courses of a meal, too. For instance, the department spent more than $13,000 on cookies and brownies for 1,542 attendees of a four-day conference in 2005. A "networking session" that offered butterfly shrimp, coconut lobster skewers and Swedish meatballs for a Community Oriented Policing Services conference in July 2006 cost more than $60,000. (source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296838,00.html)