Biography of Cecillia Wang

Cecillia Wang is the Managing Attorney of the California office of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. Her practice centers on the impact of U.S. national security policies on immigrants, and the intersection of criminal defense and immigration law.

Cecillia first worked at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project from 1997 to 1998, and rejoined the Project in 2004. Before rejoining the ACLU, Cecillia was a trial attorney with the federal public defender’s office in the Southern District of New York, and worked at the San Francisco law firm of Keker & Van Nest on both white-collar criminal cases and civil litigation. Cecillia has served on the Criminal Justice Act indigent defense panel for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Cecillia was a law clerk to Judge William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and to Justice Harry Blackmun of the Supreme Court of the United States. While clerking for Justice Blackmun, she also served as a full-time law clerk in Justice Stephen Breyer’s chambers. Cecillia is a 1995 graduate of Yale Law School, where she was an Articles Editor for The Yale Law Journal.