Eric Tung

Tung was born in 1984 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Yale University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and from the University of Chicago Law School in 2010 with a Juris Doctor with high honors and Order of the Coif membership. As a law student, Tung was managing editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. After law school, Tung was a law clerk to then-Judge Neil Gorsuch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2010 to 2011 and to Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court from 2012 to 2013. Tung clerked for Gorsuch again from 2017 to 2018, after Gorsuch was confirmed to the United States Supreme Court. ==Career==

Tung served with the United States Department of Justice as a Bristow Fellow in the office of the Solicitor General of the United States from 2011 to 2012, as an assistant United States attorney in the Central District of California in Los Angeles from 2016 to 2017 and as counsel in the Office of Legal Policy in 2017. On September 11, 2025, his nomination was advanced to the United States Senate by a 12–10 vote. Tung was confirmed on November 5, 2025 by a 52–45 vote. He received his judicial commission on November 7, 2025. == Personal life ==

Tung is a convert to Roman Catholicism whose conversion was influenced by the Opus Dei movement. == See also ==