Paul R. Corts
Assistant Attorney General for Administration

Paul R. Corts was sworn in as Assistant Attorney General for Administration on November 18, 2002. Prior to entering government service, Dr. Corts had a long and distinguished career in higher education, and was also very active in civic and professional organizations at the local, state, and national levels.

He served as President of Palm Beach Atlantic University for eleven and a half years immediately prior to joining the Justice Department. He also served as President of Wingate University in North Carolina, and he has held administrative and teaching positions at Oklahoma Baptist University and Western Kentucky University.

As a higher education administrator, he has focused on strategic planning for campus growth and program development along with resource development and management. His presidencies have reflected strong growth in revenues, assets, reserves, endowments, technology, and physical facilities. As an academic, he specialized in rhetoric and communications and is the co-author of two textbooks in the field. Dr. Corts served many professional organizations in higher education, including a term as president of the American Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities, an advisory policy board member for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, as well as chair of the board of directors of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida. He has also been devoted to economic development, serving on such statewide boards as Florida's Council of 100, and local boards such as the Palm Beach County Business Development Board and the Economic Council.

As Assistant Attorney General for Administration, Dr. Corts oversees the Department's Justice Management Division (JMD) and is the Chief Financial Officer. JMD provides overall administrative services and management leadership for the Department, including areas such as planning, evaluation, budget and financial management, personnel management and training, equal opportunity programs, ethics training and advice, automatic data processing and information technology, telecommunications, security, records management, procurement, real property and material management, as well as various other matters pertaining to organization, management, and administration.

Dr. Corts serves on the President's Management Council, Council of Chief Financial Officers, the Enduring Constitutional Government Coordinating Council, the Executive Board of the International Cooperative Administrative Support Services (Department of State), and various other federal organizations. President Bush has also appointed Dr. Corts to serve on the Board of Directors of the Federal Prisons Industries.

For the Department, Dr. Corts also serves as the Designated Agency Ethics Official (DAEO), the Chief Procurement Officer, the chair of the Executive Council of the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS), on the Strategic Management Council, the Senior Executive Review Board, and in various other roles.

Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, he graduated from Georgetown College (KY) and received his master's and doctoral degrees from Indiana University.