Eumi K. Lee is a native of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California where she majored in politics, specializing in race relations. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Lee taught for two years in the Oakland Unified School Distric through Teach for America. In 1999, she received her Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University Law Center graduating with honors. During law school, she was a a founding member of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law and served as a law clerk for the Office of Independent Counsel Carol Elder Bruce. After graduating from Georgetown, Ms. Lee served as a law clerk for both the Honorable Jerome Turner of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, and the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Ms. Lee has practiced in San Francisco at both Keker & Van Nest and Thelen, Reid & Priest, specializing in criminal defense and commercial litigation. Ms. Lee has represented a broad spectrum of clients in both federal and state court, administrative proceedings, and on the appellate level. Throughout her career, she has engaged in extensive amounts of pro bono litigation involving gender and asylum and civil rights issues, including an amicus brief on behalf of Fred Korematsu and the Bar Association of San Francisco in the Rumsfeld v. Padilla case before the United States Supreme Court. Presently, Ms. Lee is a clinical professor and attorney at the Civil Justice Clinic at University of California, Hastings College of the Law. About Gonzalez & Leigh | Practice Areas | News Excerpts | Our Attorneys | Contact Us Gonzalez & Leigh LLP Two Shaw Alley, San Francisco, CA 94105 (415) 512-2000