Wendy J. Olson

Wendy J. Olson
United States Attorney for the District of Idaho
Incumbent
Assumed office June 25, 2010
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Thomas E. Moss
Personal details
Born	1964 (age 51–52) Pocatello, Idaho, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Craig Kreiser
Children	Abby, Olivia[1]
Alma mater	Drake University Stanford Law School
Profession	Attorney

Wendy J. Olson (born 1964) is the current United States Attorney for the District of Idaho. She was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama, replacing Thomas E. Moss. As one of 93 US Attorneys nationwide, she represents the United States in all civil and criminal cases within her district.^[2]

Olson was born in Pocatello, Idaho and attended Pocatello High School. For college, Olson attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in journalism in 1986.^[3] She served as an intern in the sports department of the Los Angeles Times before leaving to attend Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, California. She graduated Stanford with a Juris Doctor in 1990, participating in internships with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, the Student Press Law Center, and the Media Access Project along the way.^[4]

For her first two years after law school, Olson served as a clerk for Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein on the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. For the next five years, from 1992 to 1997, she served as a trial attorney and later Deputy Director of the National Church Arson Task Force in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. From 1994-1997, she also served part-time as an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University Law School.

In 1997, Olson joined the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Idaho, rising to the rank of Senior Litigation Counsel at the time of her appointment in 2010.^[5]

References

2. "IdahoReporter.com". IdahoReporter.com. 2010-06-22. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
3. "USDOJ: Executive Office for United States Attorneys". Justice.gov. 2010-06-25. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
4. "Meet Wendy J. Olson". Main Justice. 2010-03-12. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
5. "USDOJ: US Attorney's Office - District of Idaho". Justice.gov. 2010-06-25. Retrieved 2014-02-13.