Glenn A. Fine

Glenn Alan Fine (born March 22, 1956) is the former principal deputy Inspector General of the Department of Defense and former Acting IG of the Department of Defense. Fine previously served as the Inspector General of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) from 2000 until January 2011. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 15, 2000. Prior to his appointment as the DOJ Inspector General, Fine served as Special Counsel to the DOJ Inspector General from January 1995 until 1996, when he was made Director of the OIG's Special Investigations and Review Unit.

He joined the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General in June 2015. Immediately prior to joining the OIG office at the Department of Justice, Fine had been in a private law practice in Washington, D.C. Before entering private practice, Fine served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Washington, D.C. United States Attorney's Office from 1986 to 1989, during which he prosecuted more than 35 criminal jury trials and handled numerous grand jury investigations. On April 7, 2020, Fine was removed from his position as acting inspector general by President Trump, which made him ineligible to serve on the pandemic oversight committee. On May 26, 2020, Fine submitted his resignation as principal deputy inspector general effective June 1, 2020.

Fine currently is a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law School.

Early life and education Fine's father was an antitrust lawyer at the Justice Department for 28 years.

In 1979, he graduated with an A.B. degree in economics from Harvard College, magna cum laude. He played college basketball for the Harvard Crimson men's basketball team. While playing for Harvard, Fine earned All-Ivy League second team honors in the 1977-78 season. He led the Ivy League in assists per game during the 1975-76, 1977-78, and 1978-79 seasons.

Though only 5'9", he was a 10th-round draft pick by the San Antonio Spurs, an NBA basketball team, in 1979. Instead, he accepted a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford. He continued his basketball playing career as a member of the Oxford University men's basketball team. Fine earned another BA (promoted to an MA, per Oxford tradition) degree at Pembroke College, Oxford. He received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1985. Shortly after he announced his retirement, The New York Times praised Fine's tenure as the DOJ Inspector General:The Department of Justice's inspector general, Glenn Fine, stepped down on Friday after a decade of pushing to clean up and depoliticize a hyperpoliticized department. He will be missed. Mr. Fine's best-known efforts came in 2008 when he documented the George W. Bush administration's politically driven firings of four United States attorneys and its politically driven hirings (breaking the civil service law) of scores of civil servants at the Civil Rights Division. Last year, he continued to detail the F.B.I.'s widespread misuse since 2001 of 'exigent letters'... President Obama should appoint a vigilant successor to Mr. Fine, one who will continue to expose the department's shortcomings and their costs. A segment on NPR praised Fine as "a model IG."

Defense Department IG and Pandemic Response Accountability Committee In June 2015, Fine returned to public service and accepted a position as the principal deputy inspector general of the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DOD OIG). On January 10, 2016, Fine became the acting inspector general for the DOD.

On March 30, 2020, Fine was named chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, to oversee the $2 trillion stimulus funds signed into law by President Donald Trump in response to the coronavirus outbreak. On April 8, legislation was introduced in the House to allow Fine to continue as chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee.

Personal life In September 1993, Fine married Beth Heifetz, a former law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. The wedding was jointly officiated at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., by Justice Blackmun and Rabbi Howard Gorin. Fine and Heifetz have two children.