Honorable Jeffrey A. Hall serves as the Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. Prior to his confirmation, Mr. Hall served as a Senior Advisor to Administrator Zeldin on enforcement matters.

Before joining EPA, Mr. Hall was a partner at a startup law firm, where he handled a wide range of cases including environmental, administrative law, criminal and complex civil litigation, and other legal matters.

Mr. Hall also served in the Department of Justice for seven years, including during the first Trump Administration. He started as a career trial attorney in Civil Frauds and went on to hold several senior positions. As Senior Counsel to the Associate Attorney General, he was responsible for overseeing all antitrust litigation and policy, significant civil litigation, religious liberty litigation, anti-human trafficking efforts, and bankruptcy issues. As Policy Counsel for the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, Mr. Hall was responsible for the Executive Branch-wide litigation risk assessment for most major legislation, regulations, and policies, as well as for handling major cases brought against the United States. Additionally, Mr. Hall served as an attorney in DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division’s Appellate Section and as a Special Assistant for civil and criminal litigation in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Before federal service, Mr. Hall worked in private practice focusing on antitrust and securities litigation and clerked for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Hall is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.

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Craig J. Pritzlaff serves as the Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance where he helps oversee national environmental compliance and enforcement activities.

Before joining OECA, Mr. Pritzlaff served as the Director of the Office of Compliance and Enforcement for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, where he oversaw compliance and enforcement activities across Texas. Prior to his tenure at TCEQ, Mr. Pritzlaff was the Chief of the Administrative Law Division and Deputy Chief of the Environmental Protection Division at the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG). At the OAG, he managed environmental litigation and appellate matters, notably obtaining a unanimous decision from the Texas Supreme Court in State v. Morello in favor of the state in the first environmental enforcement case heard by the Court in nearly forty years.