Gretchen C. F. Shappert was United States District Attorney for the western district of North Carolina

United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

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 from 2004-2009.

Shappert stressed tough prosecution of drug offenders while in office. Shappert also served as chair of the Justice Department's subcommitee on Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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 issues. Shappert also opposed retroactively lessening prison sentences related to crack-cocaine.

Shappert passed the North Carolina bar in 1980. She was in private practice and was an assistant district attorney and an assistant public defender in Charlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina

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before becoming a federal prosecutor.

Shappert resigned as U.S. Attorney in March 2009.

Sources

• Transcript of testimony of Shappert before House Judiciary Committee