Grace Chung Becker
Acting Assistant Attorney General
Civil Rights Division

Grace Chung Becker currently serves as the Acting Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. She supervises approximately 650-700 employees in ten litigating sections. Ms. Becker previously served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Division from March 2006-December 2007. Ms. Becker previously served as an Associate Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Defense. She also has worked as a federal prosecutor in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Assistant General Counsel at the United States Sentencing Commission, and an associate at the law firm of Williams & Connolly. Earlier in her career, Ms. Becker clerked for Judge James L. Buckley on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and obtained her law degree, magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and was an Associate Editor on The Georgetown Law Journal.