![]() Attorney General Holder tapped Vance to serve on his first Attorney General's Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in attendance. She was sworn in on August 27, 2009, with U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama by President Barack Obama on May 15, 2009, and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama She moved to the Appellate Division in 2002 and became the Chief of that Division in 2005. She successfully prosecuted five Boaz, Alabama, police officers charged with Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights. She spent ten years in the Criminal Division, working on investigations including that of Eric Robert Rudolph, who bombed a Birmingham abortion clinic and killed a police officer and set a string of church fires in the district. Vance was a litigator in private practice at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP in Washington, DC, before joining the United States Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Alabama in 1991. She received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, in 1982 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1985. ![]() She was raised by a single mother in the middle-class Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park, California. Joyce White Vance (née Joyce Alene White) was born on July 22, 1960, in St. ![]() attorney, nominated by President Barack Obama. it just kind of seems weird.Joyce Alene White Vance (born July 22, 1960) is an American lawyer who served as the United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017. it just seems kind of strange that you're not going to do the normal things you do every day. ![]() i was just thinking, you know, any more brushing my teeth, getting up out of bed, going outside, any of that stuff. it's all those little things that when you come down to it that are worthwhile, you know, that's it. do you think about what you're going to miss? > i mean, the little things, being able to walk out the door, see the sky, see a tree, walk in the grass, that stuff. > i don't feel like i should deal with it, i don't want to think about it, i don't want to do anything, you know? > but in our last conversation, he seemed almost peaceful, you know? like he was ready to accept his death. he was not willing to take responsibility for his role. > in a lot of my prior conversations with eric, he was often very angry and defensive about the night of the murders. Thinking about it, you know? i'll tell you the truth, i think sometimes i deserve to die and sometimes i don't. why don't you go ahead and do a couple back rolls. but since i've been out, since i've had a son, i will take any job for any wage because i'm no better than anyone else. what am i getting out to, a $10-an-hour job? african-americans make more than that. so when i was at limon, i was adamant, i will never take a job for under a certain amount of money and i'm only going to do a certain type of job. there's so much i need to do for myself and i cannot do it because there's no jobs and i don't have a car and i don't know how to begin to take care of those things, so i am pissed off. ![]() > i don't like the things that go on in this world. his wrestling career doesn't fully support him, much less his son. > lately, gill's anger has to do with making ends meet. sometimes i get so pissed off, i want to snap. the mentality follows me from prison to out here. i was always having to fight or i was in situations where, like, if you weren't an angry person, you were a weak person. ![]()
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