Angela Cai serves as the Executive Assistant Attorney General, the third-ranking official in the Office. Cai previously served as the Deputy Solicitor General since 2021, where she litigated a wide variety of complex cases on behalf of the State, including defending the State’s laws in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bruen. Prior to joining the Office, Cai was an associate at Wilkinson Stekloff LLP in New York and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in Washington, D.C. She clerked for Judge Michael A. Chagares of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Katherine B. Forrest of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Cai graduated from Princeton University and Yale Law School.