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During her tenure as Acting Director, OIP updated and completed the Department’s
March 2007 FOIA Guide, compiled the Department’s report on compliance with
Executive Order 13,392, and issued guidance for other agencies on proper reporting.
Before becoming Acting Director, Pustay served for eight years as Deputy Director
of OIP. In that capacity, she oversaw the handling of responses to initial requests
made under the FOIA for records of the senior leadership offices of the Department.
Additionally, beginning in 2003 and continuing today, she has worked with
government officials in China, Argentina, Chile and other countries to assist in
implementing guidance for openness-in-government initiatives.
Pustay has extensive FOIA litigation experience and has argued cases before the
District Court for the District of Columbia and the Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit, including handling a case in 1998 involving access to former FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover’s official and confidential files. In 1992, she was responsible for
the Department’s senior leadership compliance with the President John F. Kennedy
Assassination Records Collection Act, which required the federal government to
make records of President Kennedy’s assassination publicly available.
In 1987, Pustay was given primary responsibility for drafting Executive Order
12,600, which established procedures to provide notice to businesses when their
information is sought under the FOIA.
Pustay has received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award for her
role in providing legal advice, guidance and assistance on records disclosure issues.
Pustay worked briefly at a Washington-area law firm before coming to the
Department in 1983. She graduated from American University’s Washington
College of Law in 1982, where she served on Law Review. Pustay received her
B.A. from George Mason University in 1979, graduating summa cum laude.
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