Assistant U.S. Trustee Nick Foster welcomes his wife, attorney Leslie Foster, and their two daughters to the reception the Department of Justice held in his honor Sept. 21 at the Walden Club. Foster became the assistant U.S. trustee for the Eastern District of Tennessee July 17. Before that, he served as a trial attorney in the Chattanooga office of the U.S. trustee from September 2008 until his appointment. The Memphis-born and raised Foster earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and his Juris Doctor at the Mississippi College School of Law.