Michael Vuong

About Michael Vuong

I am an attorney and work as a term judicial law clerk (20••••26) for a federal judge in Virginia. I am admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.After graduating from law school, I clerked for the Honorable Chief Justice F. Michael Kruse and the Honorable Acting Associate Justice Elvis Patea of the High Court of American Samoa for the 20••••24 term and then the Honorable Resident Judge Charles E. Butler of the Superior Court of Delaware for the 20••••25 term. In May 2023, I graduated from SMU Dedman School of Law, where I received the Sarah McQuillen Tran Award, Bill Bridge Award for the Outstanding 1L for 2021, and the \"M\" Award—SMU’s highest honor for students. In law school, I served as the managing editor of The Year in Review at the SMU International Law Review Association, published my case note in The International Lawyer, competed in the Thomas Tang Moot Court competition, served as chief of clinic for the First Amendment Clinic, worked as a teaching assistant for legal writing, and assisted three law professors as a research assistant. In addition, I gained practical work experience in a federal district court, Congress, and administrative agencies in the federal government through the following internships:• Judicial extern for U.S. District Judge A. Joe Fish of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas• Summer law clerk for the Judiciary Committee for the U.S. House of Representatives• Legal intern for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Office of Chair Charlotte Burrows• Legal intern for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of General Counsel• Intern for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders• Intern for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor• Intern for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Member Hilda Solis• Intern for Rep. Karen Bass I completed my undergraduate degree (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) at Southern Methodist University and my Master of Public Administration, Master of Urban Planning, and Master of Public Policy at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.I do not speak or represent the United States Courts, and the views or comments expressed are solely my own personal views or comments and are not those of the United States Courts.

Experience

1. Judicial Law Clerk

   U.S. District Courts

   Sep 2025 — Present · Roanoke, VA, US

Education

• Duke University School of Law

  Certificate in the D.C. Summer Institute on Law and Policy

  2018 — 2018

• The New School

  United Nations Summer Study Program, International Relations and Affairs

  2018 — 2018

• The University of Texas at San Antonio

  Certificate in Legal Reasoning, Legal Studies

  2015 — 2015

• American University Washington College of Law

  Visiting Student, Environmental Law

  2020 — 2020

• George Mason University

  Certificate in Economics & International Affairs, Economics & Political Science

  2014 — 2014

• University of Oxford

  Study Abroad, International Studies

  2017 — 2017

• University of Southern California

  Master of Public Administration, Master of Public Policy, & Master of Urban Planning

• SMU Dedman School of Law

  Juris Doctor, Law

• German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer

  Study Abroad, Comparative Public Administration

  2019 — 2019

• Southern Methodist University

  Bachelor of Arts, English & Political Science