Edith Rojas is a former US attorney. She serves as the Vice President of International Law for the Global Justice Center, where she concentrates her legal work internationally and has worked as a private, strategic attorney working on an array of international security and human rights cases, corporate and civil matters, and national security issues. She served as an Assistant Attorney General and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas before joining the Global Justice Center in 2013. Before joining the Global Justice Center, Ms. Rojas served as a deputy to the Assistant Assistant Attorney General (ATF) for the Criminal Division in the Assistant Attorney General’s Office at the DOJ, where she focused on international money laundering and counterintelligence matters. Ms. Rojas has taught several courses at Georgetown Law’s School of Foreign Service and Georgetown University Law Center and has lectured internationally on criminal law, money laundering, and international counterterrorism and international anti-corruption issues. Ms. Rojas was appointed Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of Texas in 2004 in the Office of the Attorney General for the United States. In 2005, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the Association to Advise and Assist the Formerly Disenfranchised in a Jurisdiction in 2005. Prior to this career in law, Ms. Rojas served in the U.S. Navy as a Special Warfare Combatant and the Office of the Secretary of the Navy as a Deputy Assistant Secretary. She received her B.A., cum laude, from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service where she pursued a master’s degree in international law with distinction.
Aimee Taylor is a former US attorney for California. Ms. Taylor has spent over 20 years doing strategic legal work for corporations, as a private counsel to the U.S. Congress, with the Office of Congressional Ethics, and as general counsel to the Los Angeles County District Attorney. After serving as assistant US Attorney in the southern district of California in the US Attorney’s Office for the District of California, she co-founded and serves as the general counsel of the law firm of Smith and Taylor. Prior to joining Herndon, Ms. Taylor was deputy United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. While at the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, she led the public corruption and public corruption charges of the office in the prosecution of numerous public officials, including William R. Thompson, then chairman of the Board of State Supervisors, former