Jack Smith ’91 was recently appointed to head a European Union war crimes tribunal and will serve as the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor in The Hague Netherlands beginning this fall Most recently, Mr. Smith was the Vice President for Litigation for Hospital Corporation of America, a Fortune 100 company with over 45 billion in annual revenue and over 250,000 employees. From 2015 to 2017 Mr. Smith served as Acting United States Attorney and First Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Prior to those appointments, Mr. Smith served as Chief of the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice, supervising the litigation of complex public corruption prosecutions across the country. Smith also previously served as Investigations Coordinator at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he supervised sensitive investigations of foreign government officials and militia for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, and Chief of Criminal Litigation at the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he supervised over 100 criminal prosecutors. Mr. Smith began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney at the New York County District Attorney's Office.