Biden Nominates Korean-American Cindy Chung as US Federal Appellate Judge

[Asia Economy New York=Special Correspondent Joselgina] On the 12th (local time), U.S. President Joe Biden nominated Cindy K. Jung, a Korean-American woman, as a candidate for judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

The White House confirmed the nomination in a separate statement on the same day, saying, "Nominee Jung is the first Asian-American judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals."

Federal judges in the United States are officially appointed after the President nominates a candidate and the Senate completes the confirmation process. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has jurisdiction over Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Nominee Jung graduated from Yale University in 1997 and received her Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University in 2002. She has since served as a judicial clerk in Alabama, a prosecutor in New York, a trial attorney in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, and a prosecutor at the Western District of Pennsylvania. Last year, she was nominated by President Biden as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

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