C-3 Joshua Klein graduated from Amherst College in 1996, and graduated from Stanford Law School in 2002. In 2002-2003, he served as Law Clerk to Judge Merrick B. Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and in 2004-2005, he served as Law Clerk to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. After several years in private practice in Washington, D.C., he became an Assisant United States Attorney in 2008. He served for three years as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, before transferring to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California in 2011.