Jonathan Bunge graduated with honors from both Princeton University and the Law School. Between college and law school, he worked for United Press International in the Middle East. At the Law School he was the topics and comments editor of the Law Review. Following law school, he worked as a law clerk for Judge James Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Byron White of the U.S. Supreme Court. Since completing his clerkships, he has worked for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago and was most recently deputy chief, general crimes division. He now works at Kirkland & Ellis. He previously taught federal criminal law at the Law School during the 1997-98 school year.