Associate General Counsel, 2009-11, and Deputy General Counsel, 2011-14, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Elected member, Lexington Town Meeting, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1989-94.
Trial attorney, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1995-98.
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Criminal Division, 1998-2004.
Deputy Chief Investigative Counsel, U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, 2007-09. Chief Investigative Counsel, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, 2009.
Born in Media, Pennsylvania, 1969. Harvard University, B.A. (economics), summa cum laude, 1991; Harvard Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1994 (editor, harvard law review, 1992-94). Law clerk for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1994-95. Admitted to Massachusetts Bar, 1995; District of Columbia Bar, 1997. Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, LLP, 2004-07. Member, American Bar Association; Maryland State Bar Association; Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland; Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia; Massachusetts Bar Association (house of delegates, 2003); District of Columbia Bar Association, 2012- (board of governors, 2013-); Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Washington, DC Area, 1996-98. Board of Directors, Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership, 1996-97. Member, National Parks Conservation Association, 1997-. Board of Trustees, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, 1999-2001. Board of Directors, Asian Pacific American Agenda Coalition, 2001-02. President, Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts, 2002-03 (board of directors, 1999-2000; secretary, 2000-02; member, 1999-2003). Board of Directors, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of Boston Bar Association, 2002-03. Board of Directors, Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, 2005- (chair, 2007-09). Boykin C. Wright Memorial Prize, Ames Moot Court Competition, Harvard Law School, 1993. Special Achievement Award, U.S. Department of Justice, 1997. Public Service Commendation, United States Coast Guard, 2011.
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