Life
Joyce Chiang was one of four children and the only daughter of Taiwanese immigrants. Her three brothers John Chiang, who became Controller of the State of California in 2007; Robert Chiang and Roger Chiang, who is currently the Executive In Charge at the television show "America's Most Wanted" and as of 1999 was working for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
She was born in Chicago and raised in Chicago and California. She graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in 1988 and attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she served as president of the Student Government Association in her senior year and graduated in 1992.
Originally a summer intern, after graduation Chiang worked as a legislative aide in the office of Congressman Howard Berman and attended evening classes at the Georgetown University Law Center. She completed a law degree in 1995.
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