Events & Calendars Food for Thought: Grace Chung Becker P'19

Join Grace Chung Becker P’19 for lunch and a conversation about her career in public service. Lunch from The Works Bakery Café will be provided. Space is limited, R.S.V.P. in Quest.

Grace Chung Becker served in the all three branches of the federal government for fifteen years before continuing her public service in the non-profit arena. In 2007, Ms. Becker led the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. She was the recipient of the “Outstanding Civilian Service Medal” for her performance in the U.S. Army’s Inspector General’s review of allegations that American soldiers killed hundreds of South Korean civilians during the Korean War. Earlier in her career, she clerked for Judge James L. Buckley on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She also served as a prosecutor in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, as Criminal Counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, as an Assistant General Counsel at the U.S. Sentencing Commission and as an associate at the law firm of Williams and Connolly.

Ms. Becker obtained a Bachelor of Science in Economics, magna cum laude, from the Wharton School of Finance and a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center.