John B. Owens

Law clerk, Hon. J. Clifford Wallace, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1996-97; law clerk, Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States, 1997-98; trial attorney, Office of Consumer Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, 1998-99; private practice, Washington, D.C., 2000-01; assistant U.S. attorney, Central District of California, 2001-04; assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of California, 2004-12 (deputy chief, Major Frauds Section, 2008-10; chief, Criminal Division, 2010-11); private practice, Los Angeles, 2012-14; nominated January 2014, confirmed March 2014

Stanford Law School, J.D., 1996