Alice Martin | |
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| Attorney General of Alabama Acting | |
| In office February 9, 2017 – February 10, 2017 | |
| Governor | Robert Bentley |
| Preceded by | Luther Strange |
| Succeeded by | Steve Marshall |
| United States Attorney for theNorthern District of Alabama | |
| In office September 29, 2001 – June 8, 2009 | |
| President | George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Doug Jones |
| Succeeded by | Joyce White Vance |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alice Howze[1] 1955 or 1956 (age 68–69)[2] Sledge,Mississippi,U.S |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | Vanderbilt University (BSN) University of Mississippi, Oxford (JD) |
Alice H. Martin (born 1955/56) is an American lawyer who was theChief Deputy Attorney General ofAlabama.[3] Martin was theUnited States Attorney for theNorthern District of Alabama from 2001 until 2009. She was nominated byPresident George W. Bush in 2001.[4] During her term the office established a healthcare fraud task force which collected approximately $750M inqui 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 actingAttorney 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 PresidentBarack Obama.[5]
Martin is a native ofSledge, Mississippi, and has lived inAlabama since 1988.[2]
Martin graduated with aBachelor of Science in Nursing fromVanderbilt University and is aRegistered Nurse. She worked as a nurse during law school and received herJuris Doctor in 1981 from theUniversity of Mississippi.[6]
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Martin began her legal career inMemphis, Tennessee in 1981 but soon entered a career of public service with the United States Attorney's Office for theWestern District of Tennessee in 1983. She served as an Assistant U. S. Attorney from 1983 to 1988, and as a Special Assistant U. S. Attorney from 1988 to 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 asLauderdale CountyCircuit Court Judge byGovernorFob James in 1997,[7] to fill an unexpired judicial term.
Martin is licensed to practice law in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. She is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and certified in Healthcare Privacy (HCPC), Healthcare Compliance (CHC), and civil and domestic relations mediation.
After running unsuccessfully as a Republican in a county which had not elected a Republican sinceReconstruction, Martin re-entered private practice. She then returned to public service when nominated byPresidentGeorge W. Bush as the first femaleUnited States Attorney for theNorthern District of Alabama in September 2001, succeeding futureU.S. SenatorDoug Jones. 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 theMayor of Birmingham, Alabama, 5 of 6Jefferson CountyCommissioners, the Chancellor of Alabama Post-Secondary and several state legislators. Martin led the prosecution of the $2.8B accounting fraud that occurred atHealthSouth, 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 ofEric Robert Rudolph, theFBI's Most Wanteddomestic terrorist for his bombing of a Birmingham abortion clinic.
After leaving public office, Martin served as the Vice President of Ethics and Compliance for RegionalCare Hospital Partners ofBrentwood, Tennessee from 2010 until 2012. She then served as a healthcare compliance expert for various entities and returned to public service as Deputy Attorney General for the Alabama Department of Public Examiners, the financial watchdog agency for the State of Alabama. There she oversaw implementation of the Recovery Audit statute for Alabama.
Martin was selected to serve as Chief Deputy Attorney General by Attorney GeneralLuther Strange in April 2015 and oversaw the legal and administrative operation of the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Alabama. She oversaw the grand jury investigation into sitting Gov.Robert J. Bentley, which eventually lead to his criminal conviction and resignation from office. Following the resignation of Strange on February 9, 2017, she served as acting Attorney General for one day untilGovernorRobert J. Bentley appointedSteve Marshall. She then resigned her office to run forAttorney General of Alabama. In the June 18, 2018 Republican primary election, she finished third place, behind formerAlabama Attorney GeneralTroy King and Steve Marshall, who subsequently won the runoff and general election.[8]
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| Preceded by | Attorney General of Alabama Acting 2017 | Succeeded by |