Wan Kim - Department of Justice

Wan Kim is Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division. According to whitehouse.gov: 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... [more]

Wan Kim is Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division. According to whitehouse.gov: 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. Immediately prior to his nomination, Mr. 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, and later serving as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Mr. 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 with honors from both the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Chicago Law School. He has served as an enlisted soldier and a rifle platoon leader in the United States Army Reserve. 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.