Peter K. Nuñez began his career in law enforcement in 1972 as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorneys Office in San Diego, California. He held a number of positions in that office before being appointed as the U.S. Attorney by President Ronald Reagan in 1982.  Mr. Nuñez served as the U.S. Attorney through August of 1988, when he left to become a litigation partner in the San Diego office of one of California’s largest civil law firms.  In 1990, he was appointed by President George Bush to be the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement in Washington, D.C.  He was responsible for all law enforcement functions of the Treasury Department, including The Customs Service, The Secret Service, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, The Criminal Investigations Division of the Internal Revenue Service, The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and The Office of Foreign Assets Control.  Since 1998 he has been involved in providing training, advice, and technical assistance to various foreign governments with respect to legal reform and the improvement of their criminal justice systems.  He has been a law enforcement advisor to the Governments of Armenia and El Salvador under a program sponsored by the Treasury Department.  He has also worked with government officials in Georgia, Ukraine, Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey and Israel in the development of legal reforms in the criminal justice and law enforcement systems.  Mr. Nuñez graduated from Duke University in 1964, served in the U.S. Navy and attended law school at the University of San Diego, graduating cum laude in 1970.