Lee was born in 1965 and attended in
Gumi, North Gyeongsang, from which she graduated in 1984. She attended
Kyungpook National University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in law in 1989. Also in 2011 she was appointed
Judge Advocate General for the South Korean Army, a position she held until 2012, when she became chief judge of the High Court of the Armed Forces. She studied in the Advanced Management Program in Security at
Seoul National University in 2013 and in 2014 in a similar program at the
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Lee resigned from the army in 2014, and in 2015 she entered private practice as a partner at Barun Law. == References ==