April Christine
Lecturer in Law
April Christine is an assistant United States attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. She investigates and prosecutes criminal cases, including violent crimes, firearm violations, drug trafficking, and child exploitation crimes. She has been at USC Law as an adjunct professor of legal writing and advocacy since Fall 2005.
Ms. Christine holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, where she was a member of the Women’s Law Journal and the National Moot Court Team.
Prior to studying the law, she held several management positions during four years with Manufacturing Operations Division and later was a manager in the office document products division of Xerox Corporation in Rochester. Ms. Christine has previously worked in the U.S. Probation Office for the Central District of California in L.A., clerked for The Honorable Consuelo B. Marshall, judge of the U.S. District Court in L.A., and was an associate with Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle in Rochester, NY.