Ryan Faulconer

Ryan Faulconer is the assistant dean of public service and director of the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center.

Prior to joining the Law School, Faulconer was a federal prosecutor for 15 years, focusing on corruption, white-collar fraud and cybercrime. He was hired through the Attorney General’s Honors Program into the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. He subsequently worked as the public corruption coordinator and an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, a senior counsel with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of DOJ’s Criminal Division and as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Western District of Virginia. During his time with DOJ, Faulconer served as trial counsel on several complex, multiweek jury trials, including cases for which he received a Director’s Award and various Council of the Inspectors General awards. Before joining DOJ, Faulconer clerked for Judge T.S. Ellis III of the Eastern District of Virginia.

While a student at the Law School, Faulconer was president of the national trial advocacy team and a participant in moot court, as well as a recipient of the Pro Bono Award. He has also coached UVA’s undergraduate mock trial team since his time as a law student, for which he was elected in 2021 to the American Mock Trial Association’s Coaches Hall of Fame. Faulconer received his B.A. in political science from the University of Kansas and is a member of both the Colorado and Virginia bars.