Wan J. Kim

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Wan J. Kim was sworn in as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice on November 9, 2005. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Mr. Kim is the first immigrant to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, and he is the first Korean-American ever to become an Assistant Attorney General. On August 23, 2007 Kim announced that he was leaving the agency for the private sector.[1][2][3]

Immediately prior to his nomination, Kim served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division. He has spent most of his career at the Department of Justice, having entered through the Attorney General's Honors Program as a Trial Attorney in the Criminal Division. While at the Department of Justice, Kim was a trial attorney in the Terrorism and Violent Crime Section of the Criminal Division, and then a Special Attorney to the Attorney General in the prosecution of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols for the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After two years in private practice, Mr. Kim returned to the Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he investigated and prosecuted a wide range of criminal matters. He joined the Civil Rights Division in August 2003.

Kim also has worked on the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee for former Chairman Orrin G. Hatch, and as a law clerk to Judge James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Mr. Kim graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with departmental honors in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University. He then attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of the Law Review.

Kim has served as an enlisted soldier and a rifle platoon leader in the United States Army Reserve.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Eggen, Dan. "Head of Civil Rights Division to Leave Justice Department", Washington Post, August 24, 2007, pp. A07. 
  2. ^ Shenon, Philip. "Civil Rights Division Head Resigning at Justice Dept.", New York Times, August 24, 2007. 
  3. ^ "Statement of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales on the Resignation of Assistant Attorney General Wan J. Kim", Office of Public Affairs, United States Department of Justice, August 23, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-09-20. 

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