Soo Song
First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Western District of Pennsylvania
2024
Soo C. Song is the Chief of the Criminal Division, overseeing federal prosecutions in the 25 counties of the Western District of Pennsylvania. She also serves as the Victims Rights Coordinator.
From October 2010 through March 2018, Ms. Song served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney and Acting United States Attorney (November 2016 – December 2017). Ms. Song was a founding member of the federal Veterans Treatment Court in Pittsburgh and drafter of the National Heroin Task Force Report to Congress (2015).
Prior to joining the Western District of Pennsylvania, Ms. Song worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Arizona and served as Deputy Director of the Office of Tribal Justice at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Yale University and George Washington Law School.
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