Christopher Wimmer graduated with Honors in Rhetoric and Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. In 2005, he graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, a Jacquelin A. Swords Scholar, a Solomon I. Sklar Scholar, a Jacob Berger Fellow, a Charles Evans Hughes Fellow, a Greer Fellow, and received the Paul R. Hays Prize and the Parker School Certificate in International Law. In 2001, Mr. Wimmer served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali. After law school, Mr. Wimmer served as a law clerk to The Honorable Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He previously practiced at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP.