Jo Ann Harris (federal prosecutor)

Harris was born in Macomb, Illinois and grew up in Galesburg, where she attended public schools. She majored in Journalism at the University of Iowa and graduated in 1955. Harris had a successful career in magazine journalism, working for publications including the Ladies Home Journal, Better Homes and Gardens and Time Magazine. She met her husband Greg Harris, whom she married in 1965, while working at Time. Harris died in 2014 in The Bronx, New York, aged 81 from lung cancer. ==Legal career==

Harris received her Juris Doctor from New York University at age 39 in 1972 and clerked for Lawrence W. Pierce, then a U.S. District Judge in the Southern District of New York. Her best-known prosecution was that of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church, for tax evasion in 1982. Her first role in the Department of Justice's Criminal Division in Washington D.C. was from 1979–81 as Chief of the Fraud Section where she approved and supervised the first successful prosecution under the newly enacted Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In that role, she supervised investigations and prosecutions being handled by over 400 government lawyers and established the Department's first Computer Crime section and a task force to investigate violence against abortion clinics. The 100-page report found no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct but concluded that the lead attorney "exercised poor judgment and made mistakes in his analysis, planning and execution of the approach to Lewinsky." ==References==