Who Is FBI Director Nominee Christopher Wray’s Wife Helen?
President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director was set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday to begin the process of possibly becoming the organization’s next leader. Christopher Wray was picked by Trump to lead the FBI after the president fired James Comey in May.
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Should Wray become the next FBI director, he and his family will likely be more in the spotlight than ever before. Wray, 50, has been married to his wife Helen for almost 30 years. Both were graduates of the Yale class of 1989 and were married in August of that same year, according to a New York Times write-up of the occasion.
Christopher Wray, shown here in Washington, D.C., Jun. 29, 2017, was nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the FBI. Photo: Getty Images
Formerly Helen Howell, Helen Wray graduated from the Westminster Schools and served as business manager of the Yale Daily News during her time in college. She and Wray have two children, Carolina, 22, and Trip, 20.
Wray himself graduated from Yale Law School in 1992. From there, he joined the law firm King and Spalding, based in Atlanta, Georgia. He went on to become an assistant United States attorney in Georgia before joining the Department of Justice in 2001 as assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division. He left the department in 2005 and returned to King and Spalding, where he remained as a white collar defense attorney at the time of his nomination to the FBI.
Wray specializes in defending companies in government investigations, white collar crime and crisis management, according to his biography on the law firm’s website.
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“The president asked us to look for an FBI director who has integrity, who understands and is committed to the rule of law and who is dedicated to protecting the American people from crime, gangs and terrorists,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement Wednesday. “We have found our man in Chris Wray.”
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