C.J. Mahoney  Curtis Joseph "C.J." Mahoney is an American attorney. Previously a partner at Williams & Connolly, Mahoney currently serves as the Deputy United States Trade Representative (Investment, Services, Labor, Environment, Africa, China, and the Western Hemisphere). Mahoney was born in Russell, Kansas and attended Russell High School. He has an A.B. in government from Harvard College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated "magna cum laude". In 2006, he received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the "Yale Law Journal". Mahoney clerked for Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He also clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy from 2007 to 2008. Mahoney is also a visiting clinical lecturer at Yale Law School, where he teaches a course on international arbitration. His legal practice includes international commercial arbitration, white-collar defense, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, legal malpractice, and First Amendment law. On August 13, 2005, Mahoney married Rebecca Ann Iverson in Washington, D.C.