PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed Cindy Chung as the new U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
President Joe Biden had previously nominated her.
Chung has been an assistant U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh since 2014.
Stephen Kaufman, a longtime assistant U.S. attorney, has served as the acting U.S. attorney since the February departure of Scott Brady following former President Donald Trump’s election loss in November 2020.
Chung joined the staff in 2014 and has held various leadership roles, including acting deputy chief of the violent crimes section at various times from 2015 to 2017 and deputy chief of the major crimes section from 2018 to 2020.
Before she came to Pittsburgh, Chung was a trial lawyer in the criminal section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Prior to that, she was an assistant district attorney in Manhattan from 2003 to 2007 and then served as investigative counsel in the official corruption unit from 2007 to 2009.
She was a clerk for U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson in the Middle District of Alabama from 2002 to 2003.
Chung earned her undergraduate degree from Yale in 1997 and her law degree at Columbia Law School in 2002.
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