Nicholas J. Schilling Jr. serves as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Tax & Trade in the National Fraud Enforcement Division, where he oversees the Tax Section and the Global Trade & Commerce Enforcement Section. He joined the division in July 2026. He has held several roles at the Department: Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General; Supervisory Official and Chief of Staff for the Office of Legal Policy; Criminal Trial Attorney in the former Tax Division; and Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. He received the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service, the second-highest award granted by the Attorney General, for his work investigating and prosecuting an abusive tax promotion scheme. He joined the Department through the Attorney General's Honors Program. Before that, he clerked for Judge David J. Porter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Stephen J. Murphy III of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Notre Dame Law School.