Candice C. Wong served from 2015 to 2024 as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where she led the Violence Reduction and Trafficking Offenses Section for more than two years. Ms. Wong also served in various senior leadership positions in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice, including as acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General as well as Chief of Staff. From 2020 to 2021, Ms. Wong served as the Department of Justice’s ex officio member on the United States Sentencing Commission. Prior to entering public service, Ms. Wong worked at Bancroft PLLC and King & Spalding LLP. Ms. Wong served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor and Honorable Sonia M. Sotomayor on the United States Supreme Court, and to the Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 

Ms. Wong received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her A.B. from Harvard College.