Former Prosecutor Park Ji-young Appointed as Presidential Secretary for Judicial Reform

President Lee Jae-myung has appointed lawyer Park Ji-young, a former prosecutor who served on the special counsel team investigating the insurrection case, as the Presidential Secretary for Judicial System under the Office of the Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs, a position responsible for overseeing overall judicial reform.

According to the Blue House, Secretary Park was officially appointed and began her duties at the presidential office starting today.

The position of Secretary for Judicial System, newly established within the Office of the Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs under the Lee Jae-myung administration, oversees the design of the overall judicial system, including prosecution reform. The post had been vacant since former Secretary Lee Jin-gook expressed his intention to resign early this year.

Secretary Park graduated from Gwangju Speear Girls' High School and Yonsei University's College of Law. After passing the bar exam (39th Bar Exam, 29th Judicial Research and Training Institute), she began her career as a prosecutor at the Seoul District Prosecutors' Office in 2000 and served until 2023.

Secretary Park was also the first woman to work in the Prosecution Service Division of the Ministry of Justice.

During the Moon Jae-in administration in 2020, while serving as a prosecutor-researcher at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, she worked as the team leader of the Prosecution Reform Promotion Group. After leaving the prosecution service following her role as Chief of the Trial Division at the Seoul High Prosecutors' Office, she moved to the law firm Bae, Kim & Lee.

Starting in June of last year, she served as an assistant special prosecutor for the special counsel team that investigated former President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Following the appointment of Han Chan-sik, also a former prosecutor, as the Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs yesterday, President Lee has consecutively appointed former prosecutors to positions responsible for judicial reform, including prosecution reform.

Secretary Park will be in charge of follow-up tasks for prosecution reform, such as the issue of maintaining the prosecution's supplementary investigation rights, as well as various other judicial reform agendas.

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