2015 Barnhardt Seminar on Ethics: Anne M. Tompkins
Anne M. Tompkins is a partner in Cadwalader, Wickersham Taft’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Group and former United State Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
Her current practice focuses on representing companies and financial institutions, as well as their officers and directors in criminal, civil, and administrative investigations. Tompkins has more than 20 years’ experience in crisis management, internal investigations, and enforcement matters across a variety of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, pharmaceutical/healthcare, and government contracting.
In her role as United States Attorney from April 2010 to March 2015, Tompkins led numerous high-profile, complex criminal and civil investigations, including a public corruption case involving the former mayor of Charlotte, the national security case against former general and CIA Director David Petraeus, numerous securities and financial fraud cases, as well as significant matters in the mortgage-backed securities business. During this time, she was also detailed for eight months to the Regime Crimes Liaison Office in Baghdad, Iraq, where she assisted the Iraqi Special Tribunal investigation into international humanitarian crimes committed by members of the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Tompkins received her law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law. She received a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.