Deborah Gruen

Deborah Gruen started swimming when she was 5-years-old. She began competing for Paralympic Games in 2004 where she won her first bronze medal in 2004 Paralympic Games which were held in Athens, Greece for 100 metres (330 ft) breaststroke. Four years later she won another one at 2008 Summer Paralympics which were held in Beijing, China. In 2009, she was awarded silver medal at Paralympic World Cup which was held at Manchester, England. Besides Olympics she also held two world records in 2006 for 200 metres (660 ft) breaststroke and 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) freestyle at U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships in San Antonio, Texas and one more in 2009 for 400 metres (1,300 ft) individual medley at Spring Canadian-American Championships in Portland, Oregon.[1]

She enrolled into Yale University in 2006 and also studied Chinese at Peking University. She retired from competitive swimming in 2009, after which she attended law school at Georgetown University Law Center starting in 2010, from which she graduated in 2013. Following her graduation from law school, she clerked for the Hon. Roy W. McLeese III of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She is currently a corporate partner at the international law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.[2]