Board of Directors
Korean Prosecutors Association
Board of Directors 2024
Irene Lee
Interim-President
KPAJina Kim
Secretary
Jina Kim is a prosecutor for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, currently assigned to the Family Violence Unit. She has prosecuted numerous cases involving domestic violence, child abuse, child sex crimes, and elder abuse. She has completed over 65 jury trials during her career as a prosecutor, and also educated local and international communities regarding domestic violence prosecutions. Ms. Kim attended Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and University of California, Berkeley, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. She is a former treasurer and former Vice President of Los Angeles of KPA.
Daniel Bahk
Treasurer
Daniel Bahk is a San Diego County Deputy District Attorney and assigned as a readiness supervisor in the Superior Court Division . He has handled and tried numerous misdemeanor and felony jury trials. He negotiates felony cases including murders, attempted murders, home invasion and armed robberies, carjackings, criminal threats, assaults causing great bodily injury, and property crimes. Mr. Bahk graduated from the University of Arizona and Rutgers University School of Law in New Jersey.
Jerry Baik
Executive Director
Jerry Baik is currently an Assistant City Attorney and joined the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office in 1994 as a Deputy City Attorney assigned to Criminal Division. In July 2012, he voluntarily transferred in-house to the Civil Litigation Section with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Previously, he founded and supervised the first-ever Identity Theft and Fraud Unit for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. His Unit’s cases were featured on Good Morning America, NY Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, local TV news stations, other national news circulations, and People magazine. For his work, he received awards from the U.S. Homeland Security-Office of the Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Social Security Administration-OIG, U.S. Food Drug Administration, and International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition. He was a national speaker on identity theft and white-collar fraud. Mr. Baik was previously an Assistant Supervising Deputy City Attorney for Central Trials Section, largest criminal branch for the Office. He supervised 45 prosecutors and 30 support staff members. In 2005, he won the City of Los Angeles Quality and Productivity Award. He was the past President of the Asian Pacific City Attorney’s Association, Regional Vice-President (SOCAL) for the National Asian Pacific Islander Prosecutors Association, board member of the Korean American Bar Association (SOCAL), and board member of the Asian Pacific Women’s Center (domestic violence organization). He was the founder and first President for the Korean Prosecutors Association, and founder and first Chair of the KPA Justice Foundation. In addition, he was a board member of Little Tokyo Towers (Senior low-income housing in Little Tokyo).
Sue Bai
Board of Director
Sue J. Bai is an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. She has been a member of the office’s National Security Division in both the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section and the Terrorism and Export Crimes Section. Notably, in 2022, she obtained across-the-board guilty verdicts at trial in the office’s largest cyber prosecution to date which charged 80 defendants with over 200 counts of fraud and money laundering. Prior to that, she was detailed to the White House National Security Council as Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Legal Advisor as well as the White House Counsel’s Office as Associate Counsel to the President. Before joining the Department of Justice, she worked at an international law firm in Washington, D.C., representing Fortune 100 companies and financial institutions in cross-border investigations and appellate litigation. She holds a JD and BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and completed her clerkship with a federal circuit judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She has also studied and worked in the U.K., China, and South Korea and is a native English and Korean speaker.
Sylvia Choi
Board of Director representing Southern California Chapter (Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties)
Sylvia Choi is a Deputy District Attorney in the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, where she has handled a variety of cases, including homicides. She has received numerous awards for her work as a prosecutor. She has been a California licensed attorney since 2005. Sylvia is a cofounder of the Asian Pacific American Lawyers of the Inland Empire. She is a member of the Riverside County Bar Association. She is also a former board member of the Leo A. Deegan Inn of Court. Sylvia has been a member of KPA since 2010 and has served on its board for many years since more than a decade.
John Chang
Board of Director
John Chang is a Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. He prosecutes complex litigation gang cases. He volunteers weekly through the Project L.E.A.D. program working with 5th graders and talking to them about the justice system. He graduated from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and the University of California at Riverside with a BA in political science. He has been a former KPA board member and was active in the mentorship committee.
T. Peter Choi
Board of Director representing New York & New Jersey Chapters
Peter Choi is a Senior Assistant District Attorney at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently assigned to the Public Integrity Bureau where he investigates corruption and fraud committed by elected officials and public servants. In the past, he has also prosecuted hate crimes and other violent felonies. He received both his B.A. and J.D. at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
David Kwon
Board of Director
David Kwon is a felony trial attorney in the Los Angeles County District Attorney‘s Office. He is currently assigned to Central Trials in downtown LA where he prosecutes serious and violent felonies including murder, attempted murder, and domestic violence cases. Prior to joining the LADA’s Office David was a prosecutor in Ventura County and the City of San Diego. He received his B.A. from UC Irvine and J.D. from UCLA School of Law. He is currently the Secretary for the KPA Justice Foundation
Lucie Kwon
Board of Director representing New York & New Jersey Chapters
Lucie is a career prosecutor, serving as an Assistant District Attorney over the last two decades
with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. She earned her undergraduate degree from
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, followed by a Juris Doctorate from the Cardozo
School of Law. During her tenure with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, Lucie served in several bureaus, including the Major Crime Bureau, White Collar Bureau, and Asset Forfeiture Unit.
In January 2022, the Honorable Raymond Tierney, District Attorney of Suffolk County,
appointed Lucie to her current position - Bureau Chief of the Financial Crimes Bureau. Lucie
serves distinctively as the first Asian American Bureau Chief in the history of Suffolk County
government. Lucie has lectured on topics of Intellectual Property, Money Laundering and law
enforcement. In 2023 Lucie lectured on the topic of NY State RICO statute at the International
Criminal Law Conference in Seoul, Korea. Lucie was a guest speaker at the United Nations
Interpol Law Enforcement IP Crime Conference where she spoke to law enforcement members
from over 60 nations on how to trace illicit proceeds. Lucie has also served as a Moot Court
Attorney at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Computer Analysis Response Team training
program. Lucie is an active Board Member of the Suffolk County Asian Advisory Board and the
DA’s Anti-Bias Task Force. Lucie is a 2022 Asian American and Pacific Islander Distinguished
Awards recipient and named one of Long Island’s Power Women by Schneps Media.
Elaine Lee
Board of Director representing Pacific Northwest (Seattle area) Chapter
Elaine Lee is a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, where she works in the Violent Crimes Unit as a trial deputy. She’s worked in various units throughout the office, trying countless trials, doing early plea negotiations, filing charges, and covering various court hearings. Prior to joining the office, Elaine went to Officer Candidate School for the Marine Corps, as a law contract. She made it through seven of the ten weeks, before she fractured her pelvic bone during a grueling outdoor course. This, however, led to one of the most memorable years in Elaine’s life, working as a law clerk for the Honorable Joseph E. Cardoza (Ret.), in the Second Circuit Court, Hawaii, while he presided over a six-month long, high-profile murder trial. Elaine is a member of the King County Bar Association, where she serves on the Judicial Evaluation Committee, as well as the Korean American Bar Association, where she serves as a member of the Joint Asian Judicial Evaluation Committee. She is also serving as Diversity Chair of the King County Chapter of the Washington Women Lawyers, where she has previously served as Secretary and Communications Chair. Elaine has served two terms as Secretary of the Korean American Bar Association, and within her office, she served as a facilitator for the Law Enforcement Equity Action Group, as well as a coach for newer deputies in felony Trial Boot Camp
Joshua Lee
Board of Director
Josh is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. He is assigned to the General Crimes Section, and in that capacity, he investigates and prosecutes federal offenses, including guns and violence, narcotics trafficking, financial crimes, and child exploitation. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Josh served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Special Prosecutions Section of the California Department of Justice. In this role, he led criminal investigations and prosecutions into multimillion dollar fraud schemes, including securities fraud and embezzlement schemes, against real estate developers, executives and business owners, pastors, attorneys, among others; sensitive public corruption matters involving acts of bribery, perjury, and sale of off-roster weapons; and officer-involved shootings of unarmed civilians. He has provided trainings to state prosecutors on the use of grand juries in complex, white-collar cases, was the first state prosecutor in California to use a unique financial statute to target Chinese organized crime, and received two AG Awards: one for the prosecution of an alleged apostle and megachurch pastor for human trafficking. He earned his B.A. and J.D. from UCLA and was an editor on the UCLA Law Review.
Martin Park
Board of Director representing Ontario, Canada Chapter
Martin Park is a board member representing Ontario, Canada. He is Federal Crown for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada and primarily prosecutes drug offenders. Outside of court, Martin is involved in providing training for law enforcement agencies as well as giving guest lectures at local law schools.
Sam Park
Board of Director
Sam Park is a Chief Deputy City Attorney with the San Diego City Attorney’s Office. She is the Chief of the General Trial Unit. She was a Deputy District Attorney with the Imperial County District Attorney’s Office, California, from 2007-2008. She previously worked for US Army JAG where she represented wounded warriors. In 2015, she was admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court.
Sanghee Park
Board of Director and Liaison to the Republic of Korea Supreme Prosecutors’ Office
She has been serving as a Consul at the Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles since February 2024. With over 15 years of dedication as a public prosecutor in Korea, she has committed herself to the establishment of justice and the protection of society. She is an alumnus of Seoul National University Law School and was admitted to the New York Bar in 2016, after completing her Master of Law degree at George Washington University Law School.
Wilson Park
Board of Director
Wilson Park has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California for over 10 years. Wilson currently serves as a Deputy Chief in the Office’s General Crimes Section, where he supervises and trains new AUSAs as they learn to prosecute a wide range of felony cases. Wilson previously was assigned to the Office’s National Security Division, Terrorism and Export Crimes Section, where he investigated and prosecuted matters involving domestic and international terrorism, foreign agents, espionage, the illegal export of munitions and other sensitive technologies, sanctions, and the use of destructive devices/weapons of mass destruction. Wilson also spent six years in the Office’s Violent and Organized Crime Section, where he prosecuted significant RICO cases against large Los Angeles gangs, fraud and money laundering cases against organized crime, international human trafficking cases, and matters involving the exploitation of children. Wilson previously served as the Office’s Gang Coordinator and Eagle Task Force (Export Crimes) Coordinator, and currently serves as one of the Office’s Discovery Coordinators. Prior to joining the Office, Wilson clerked for a judge in the Central District of California and worked for a large law firm. Wilson received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Christina Danbi Choi
Board Representative for Australia and New Zealand
Chris Danbi Choi is an Assistant Director, Human Exploitation and Border Protection at the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and also serves on the NSW Sentencing Council, following appointment in 2016. Chris became the first Korean-Australian Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law and is passionate about developing lawyers in criminal law practice. Besides managing prosecutions, Chris has been the co-Principal of the pro bono Korean Community Legal Service which she co-founded in 2011. Chris is committed to public service in the administration of justice and hopes to continue serving the community throughout the remainder of her career.
Andrew Lee
Board Representative for Law Enforcement Officers (LEO)
Andrew Lee is a recent retired Special Agent for the Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division. He was with CID for over 22 years. Prior to joining the Department of Treasury, He was with the California Board of Equalization. Mr. Lee is highly sought out expert in the area of financial fraud and tax codes. He has trained Korean government officials and presented seminars to various organizations throughout the world. Recently, he was elected as a board member and Chief Financial Officer for the KPA Justice Foundation.
KPA Mission
The Korean Prosecutors Association is a global non-profit organization of public prosecutors, of Korean descent, formed for the purpose of networking, information sharing, mentoring, and serving the community by providing information and education on matters concerning the public and public safety.
