JILL WINE-BANKS

Jill Wine-Banks is an MSNBC legal analyst, appearing regularly on the network’s prime time and daytime shows. She began her career as an organized crime prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, which led to her selection as one of three assistant Watergate special prosecutors in the obstruction of justice trial against President Nixon’s top aides.

She has also served as general counsel of the U.S. Army, solicitor general and deputy attorney general of the state of Illinois, and executive vice president and chief operating officer of the American Bar Association. In each case, she was the first woman to hold the position. A graduate of the University of Illinois and the Columbia Law School, she lives in Chicago.

JOYCE WHITE VANCE

Joyce White Vance is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center. She is a legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC and writes the popular Civil Discourse newsletter. Vance is the cohost of two podcasts, #SistersInLaw and The Insider.

Vance was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from August 2009 through January 2017. She was appointed by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Previously, she served in the U.S. Attorney’s office since 1991 as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal and Appellate Divisions, and later as it’s senior litigation counsel and Appellate Chief. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s office, Vance worked as a litigator in private practice, first with Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn in Washington, D.C. and then with Bradley, Arant (now Bradley, Arant, Boult, Cummings) in Birmingham.  Vance is a 1985 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and a 1982 graduate of Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine.  She is married to retired Alabama Circuit Judge Robert S. Vance, Jr. They have four children, two dogs, four cats and an undisclosed number of chickens. Vance knits a lot.