Zachary T. Lee
Assistant United States Attorney
Mr. Lee graduated in 1998 with a B.A. degree in American History from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. He received his J.D. in 2001 from the University of Wyoming College of Law, Laramie, Wyoming, where he was a member of the Land and Water Law Review. Mr. Lee was a law clerk to the Honorable James P. Jones, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, from 2002 to 2003.
After his clerkship, Mr. Lee worked as an Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Bristol, Virginia, from 2003 to 2007, where he prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases, including child abuse, first degree murder and narcotics offenses. In 2005, Mr. Lee was assigned to work as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia in the Abingdon Branch pursuant to a Project Safe Neighborhoods grant. Mr. Lee was hired by the United States Attorney's Office as an Assistant United States Attorney in 2007.