Clay West
Clay West is an attorney working at the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel at the Defense Department. He received his law degree from Yale Law School, his master's degree from Cambridge University, and his bachelor's degree from Harvard College. After law school, Clay worked as a law clerk for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and for a judge on the California Supreme Court. He served as a federal criminal prosecutor in Chicago and deployed on combat tours with the U.S. Army to Afghanistan and Iraq. Clay grew upon a small grain farm in Cottonwood, Illinois and now hails from Chicago.

