Robert K. Hur

Robert Kyoung Hur (born 1973) is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland from 2018 to 2021. He previously served as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General with the U.S. Department of Justice. Hur oversaw the investigation into President Joe Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents during Biden's time as vice president. Hur was born in 1973 in New York City to South Korean parents. His father, Young Hur, was an anesthesiologist, and his mother, Haesook Hur, worked as the office manager for her husband's anesthesiology practice.[2][3][4] He was raised in Los Angeles where he attended the Harvard School (now Harvard-Westlake School).[4][5] Hur studied English and American literature at Harvard College, graduating in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude. From 1995 to 1996, Hur did graduate study in philosophy at King's College, Cambridge, receiving first-class honours.[6][7] From 1996 to 1998, he worked for Boston Consulting Group. He then attended Stanford Law School, where he was the executive editor of the Stanford Law Review and won the school's Kirkwood Moot Court Competition. He graduated in 2001 with a Juris Doctor and membership in the Order of the Coif.[2] After law school, Hur was a law clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2001 to 2002 and for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court from 2002 to 2003.[2] He then served as Special Assistant and Counsel to Christopher A. Wray, then Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. From 2007 to 2014, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Maryland, where he prosecuted gang violence, drug trafficking and firearms offenses, and white-collar crimes. He was a partner with King & Spalding in Washington, D.C., where his practice focused on government investigations and complex litigation.[8]