Biden Nominates First Korean-American Woman as Federal Prosecutor

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Cindy Chung, nominee for U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Source=U.S. online news media TripLive

[Asia Economy Reporter Cho Hyun-ui] On the 27th (local time), U.S. President Joe Biden nominated Korean-American woman Cindy K. Jung (photo) as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The White House announced that it had nominated Cindy Jung, the Deputy U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, as the U.S. Attorney.

Nominee Jung graduated from Yale University in 1997 and received her Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University in 2002.

She served as a judicial research attorney in Alabama and as a prosecutor in New York before working as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice from 2009 to 2014. Afterwards, she moved to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, where she worked in the violent and major crimes division and currently serves as the Deputy U.S. Attorney.

If Jung is confirmed through the Senate confirmation hearing, she will become the first Korean-American woman to hold the position of U.S. Attorney. A source said, "There have been Korean-American male U.S. Attorneys before, but no women. If Jung becomes U.S. Attorney, she will be the first Korean-American woman to do so."

The first Korean-American U.S. Attorney was Byungjin Park (American name BJay Pak), who was nominated as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in 2017. The second was Robert Hur, nominated as U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 2018.

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