15 Facts About Jessie Liu

Jessie Kong Liu is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the United States attorney for the District of Columbia from 2017 to 2020.

Jessie Liu previously worked as deputy general counsel at the US Treasury and served at the Justice Department.

Jessie Liu clerked for Judge Carolyn Dineen King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1998 to 1999.

Jessie Liu served as assistant United States attorney in the District of Columbia from 2002 to 2006.

Jessie Liu worked at the United States Department of Justice during the administration of President George W Bush from 2006 to 2009.

Jessie Liu's roles included deputy chief of staff in the National Security Division, counsel to the deputy attorney general, and deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division.

Jessie Liu worked for the 2016 transition team of President-elect Donald Trump, and in 2017 became deputy general counsel at the United States Department of the Treasury.

In June 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Jessie Liu to become the next United States attorney for the District of Columbia.

Jessie Liu was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote in September 2017.

In March 2019, President Donald Trump said he would nominate Jessie Liu to become United States associate attorney general, but she withdrew her name from consideration later that month because the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee objected to her nomination.

Jessie Liu was then transferred to the Treasury Department to await her confirmation, as Barr replaced her with his close advisor Timothy Shea.

CNN reported that Jessie Liu's nomination was withdrawn because she was perceived to be insufficiently involved in the Stone and McCabe cases.

Days later it was reported that before Jessie Liu's nomination was withdrawn, Trump was presented with a lengthy memo describing a variety of ways Jessie Liu was perceived to be disloyal, primarily by not prosecuting individuals Trump disliked.

Jessie Liu was named a White Collar Trailblazer by the National Law Journal in 2015, was named among the Best Lawyers Under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association in 2011, received a Rising Star Award from the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Washington, DC, in 2011, and received a Service Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers in 2005.

Jessie Liu is married to Michael Abramowicz, a lawyer who attended Yale Law School.