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Cindy Kyounga Chung
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Active service.
Confirmed 50 to 44Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- January 3, 2023
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- Not published yet
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), February 2, 2023
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 50 to 44
- Confirmed
- February 13, 2023
- Commissioned
- February 21, 2023
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1975, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
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Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Law clerk, Hon. Myron H. Thompson, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 2002-2003
- District attorney's office, New York County, New York, 2003-2009; assistant district attorney, Trial Bureau 50, 2003-2007; investigation counsel, Official Corruption Unit, 2007-2009
- Trial attorney, Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 2009-2014
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Western District of Pennsylvania, 2014-2021; acting deputy chief, Violent Crimes Section, 2015-2017 (intermittently); deputy chief, Major Crimes Section, 2018-2020
- Adjunct professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 2021
- U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 2021-2023
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