Candice M. Will, Assistant Director, Office of Professional Responsibility

Candice Will was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and received her B.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1979. She obtained her law degree from St. Louis University in May 1982. After practicing law for several years in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a private firm and later as an Assistant Attorney General in the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office, Ms. Will became a staff attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

In May 1988, Ms. Will began her career at the U.S. Department of Justice. After serving for two and a half years as a trial attorney in the Tax Division’s Western Civil Trial Section, Ms. Will became the Acting Civil Chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada. In May 1992, Ms. Will was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Litigation Section of the Criminal Division at Main Justice, serving under then Assistant Attorney General Robert S. Mueller, III.

In June 1994, Ms. Will became an Assistant Counsel in the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility. During her nine year tenure at DOJ/OPR, Ms. Will conducted more than 100 investigations of the Department’s senior management, attorneys and agents.

In September 2003, Ms. Will joined the FBI’s Office of General Counsel, National Security Law Branch (NSLB). While at NSLB, Ms. Will completed a detail to the Justice Department’s Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR), where she represented the government before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court.

Ms. Will and her husband, Jeff Foster, have a seven-year old son, Edward. They live in Chevy Chase, Maryland.