
Julius Nam
Assistant United States Attorney, Public Corruption & Civil Rights Section, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California
2024
Julius Nam is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. Between January and October of 2024, he was detailed to the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service as a Senior Counsel Performing the Duties of the Deputy Director. In addition to his work in CRS and as a federal civil rights prosecutor in Los Angeles, he has served as a senior policy counsel and a senior legislative counsel, respectively, for the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy and the Office of Legislative Affairs. A graduate of UCLA Law School, Nam clerked for Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym and District Judge Virginia A. Phillips of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and for Judge Arthur L. Alarcón of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to his legal career, Nam worked as a Christian minister in South Korea, Michigan, and Los Angeles, and as a religion professor at Pacific Union College and Loma Linda University. He holds a PhD in American Religious History from Andrews University.

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