Alice Martin
| Alice Martin | |
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| Deputy Attorney General of Alabama | |
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Assumed office May 1, 2015 |
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| Governor |
Robert J. Bentley Kay Ivey |
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Attorney General of Alabama Acting |
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In office February 9, 2017 – February 10, 2017 |
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| Governor | Robert Bentley |
| Preceded by | Luther Strange |
| Succeeded by | Steve Marshall |
| United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama | |
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In office September 29, 2001 – June 8, 2009 |
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| President |
George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| Governor |
Don Siegelman Bob Riley |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1955/1956 (age 60–61) Sledge, Mississippi, U.S |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education |
Vanderbilt University (BSN) University of Mississippi, Oxford (JD) |
Alice H. Martin is an American politician who is current Chief Deputy Attorney General of Alabama. Martin was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2001 until 2009. She was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2001. During her term the office established a healthcare fraud task force which collected approximately $750M in qui tam settlements, as well as obtaining over 125 convictions of elected and appointed officials and contractors in public corruption prosecutions. In 2017, Martin served as the acting Attorney General of Alabama for a short period of time.
Martin tendered her resignation from office in June 2009, five months after the inauguration of Democratic President Barack Obama.
Martin is a native of Sledge, Mississippi., and has lived in Alabama since 1988.
Martin graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University and is a Registered Nurse. She worked as a nurse during law school and received her Juris Doctorate in 1981 from the University of Mississippi.
Martin began her legal career in Memphis, Tennessee in 1981 but soon entered a career of public service with the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee in 1983. She served as an Assistant U. S. Attorney from 1983-1988, and as a Special Assistant U. S. Attorney from 1988-1990. She focused on white collar prosecutions and medical malpractice defense for VA, military and Bureau of Prison hospitals. She entered the private legal sector upon moving to Alabama specializing in insurance defense work before being appointed as a Circuit Court Judge by Governor Fob James in 1997, to fill an unexpired judicial term.
After running as a Republican in a county which had not elected a Republican since Reconstruction, Martin re-entered private practice. She then returned to public service when nominated by President George W. Bush as the first female U. S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama in September 2001. During her 8 years of service, from 2001 to 2009, she was recognized nationally for a top ranked Healthcare Fraud Task Force which returned over $750M in qui tam settlements/recoveries to the U. S. Treasury, as well as the North Alabama Public Corruption Task Force which obtained over 125 convictions of elected/appointed officials and contractors including the mayor of Birmingham, 5 of 6 Jefferson County commissioners, the Chancellor of Alabama Post-Secondary and several state legislators. She led the prosecution of the HEALTHSOUTH $2.8B accounting fraud which netted the first conviction under Sarbanes-Oxley and 17 convictions of corporate officers for various frauds and FCPA violations. She also oversaw the successful prosecution of Eric Robert Rudolph, the FBI's Most Wanted domestic terrorist for his bombing of a Birmingham abortion clinic.
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