Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office
Postpartum Support International
210 W. Temple St.
19th floor
Los Angeles, CA
USA 90012
Biographical Sketch: Kimberly Wong has been an attorney with the Los Angeles County Public Defender‘s Office for 13 years, and currently serves as Legislative/Criminal Justice Policy Advisor to the Public Defender. Graduating cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, at Irvine, Ms. Wong received a bachelor of arts degree in Social Ecology, with emphases in criminal justice and legal studies; and psychology and human behavior. Ms. Wong received her law degree from Loyola Law School in 1992.
Some of Ms. Wong’s professional work has focused on incarcerated domestic violence survivors. Ms. Wong helped create the Women’s Re-entry Court, which allows eligible and suitable women parolees who are charged with a subsequent felony case to receive individualized treatment in a gender responsive residential treatment facility instead of returning to prison. Ms. Wong is also the co-chair of the Legislative Issues Committee of the Los Angeles County Domestic Violence Council, and chairs the Council’s Ad Hoc Committee for Survivor Defendants. She received the 2006 Woman of the Year award from the Los Angeles County Commission for Women in the category of law/public safety.