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Former United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung

United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung
Cindy K. Chung
Former United States Attorney
Western District of Pennsylvania

Cindy K. Chung was nominated for United States Attorney by President Joe Biden on Oct. 27, 2021, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Nov. 19, 2021.  She was sworn in as the Western District of Pennsylvania’s 59th U.S. Attorney on Nov. 23, 2021.  

Prior to becoming U.S. Attorney, Ms. Chung served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2014.  Ms. Chung has held numerous positions during her tenure, including Deputy Chief of the Major Crimes Section from 2018 to 2020, Acting Deputy Chief of the Violent Crimes Section at various times in 2015 to 2017, Domestic Violence Coordinator from 2019 to 2020, Project Safe Neighborhoods Coordinator from 2018 to 2020, Border Security Coordinator from 2018 to 2020, and Civil Rights Coordinator from 2016 to 2018.  Ms. Chung also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where she cotaught a course on Federal Hate Crimes in the Spring of 2021.  

Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Chung worked as a Trial Attorney in the Criminal Section of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division from 2009 to 2014.  From 2003 to 2007, Ms. Chung worked as an Assistant District Attorney at the District Attorney’s Office, New York County, and she continued her work there as an Investigation Counsel in the Official Corruption Unit from 2007 to 2009.  Ms. Chung began her legal career as a law clerk for Judge Myron Thompson on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama from 2002 to 2003.

Ms. Chung received her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2002 and her B.A.s from Yale University in 1997.

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Updated February 17, 2023