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Lance Simon joined the Stonewall Board of Directors in 2020. He is an Assistant United States Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO), Middle District of Georgia, in Macon. The Middle District also covers Athens, Columbus, Albany, and Valdosta. In this role, Lance represents the United States in federal civil litigation, including in the areas of medical malpractice, torts, and employment law. Lance is also the USAO’s Civil Rights Coordinator.

Prior to joining the USAO in 2018, Lance worked for six years in two other components of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. First in the Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, followed by ATF.

Lance is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Tulane Law School. After law school, he clerked for a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem.

Currently, Lance teaches as an adjunct law professor at Mercer Law School.