Chapter Member Christopher Nassar Receives National FBA Award

Christopher J. Nassar, NEOK chapter member and Deputy Criminal Chief with the Northern District of Oklahoma U.S. Attorney’s Office, has been named the recipient of the Federal Bar Association's Younger Federal Lawyer Award. This award acknowledges younger federal lawyers who attain high standards of professional achievement and accords public recognition for outstanding performance. Nassar was announced as the award recipient during the FBA Annual Meeting & Convention on September 21.

Nassar has been with the Northern District of Oklahoma U.S. Attorney’s Office since January 2018. As a Deputy Criminal Chief, he supervises the office’s national security, cybercrime, civil rights, human trafficking, and Project Safe Neighborhoods gun crime prosecutions.

Nassar previously served as a prosecutor in the United States Marine Corps and as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He still serves in the Marine Corps Reserve as a law of armed conflict advisor for USCYBERCOM. Nassar is a graduate of the University of Arkansas and the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

Recipients of the Younger Federal Lawyer Award exhibit the utmost professional excellence, service to the profession and the bar, service to the community, and/or a reputation for the advancement of legal ethics and professional responsibility. Nassar is among the only five recipients of the award this year.