As part of the agreement to lead the investigations, Smith will depart his current role as the chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague assigned with investigating war crimes committed during the Kosovo War during the late 1990s. The Hague is an intergovernmental panel that probes and prosecutes international crimes.
Before he joined The Hague as chief prosecutor in 2018, Smith was the vice president of litigation for the Tennessee-based Hospital Corporation of America, the largest private health care provider in the nation. He worked in the role at the company for less than a year, according to the Nashville Business Journal.
Prior to working in the private sector, Smith worked in different prosecutorial roles in New York City and the Department of Justice (DOJ) outside a two-year stint between 2008 and 2010 he spent investigating war crimes for the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Smith's prosecutorial career began in 1994 when he was selected to be the assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office. In 1999, he was hired by the DOJ to serve as assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where he worked on a wide variety of investigations, including gang-related and civil rights-related cases.
In 2010, Smith was hired to lead the DOJ's Public Integrity Section, which specializes in public corruption and elections-related investigations.
In 2015, he was appointed the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. He eventually became the acting U.S. attorney for the district before being hired by the Hospital Corporation of America.
During his time at the DOJ, he received both the Director’s Award and the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service.
Smith is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta and, later, Harvard Law School.
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