A former federal prisoner pardoned during President Donald Trump’s first term for drug trafficking crimes has been picked to be deputy director of the Bureau of Prisons.

Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman whose nonprofit Fourth Purpose Foundation focuses on inmate advocacy and rehabilitation, will become the first former federal inmate to be a Bureau of Prisons employee at any level, NBC News reported Friday.

“Josh brings to this role something our agency has never had before at this level, a perspective shaped by lived experience, proven innovation and national impact,” Prisons Director William Marshall III told staff Thursday in a memo, according to NBC News.

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