Wainstein earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to earned a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley where he was the Note and Comment Editor of the California Law Review.[4]
Following law school,Wainstein served as law clerk to the Honorable Thomas Penfield Jackson of the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia.[1]
After leaving the Bush administration,Wainstein joined the law firm of O'Melveny &Myers. In 2012,he moved to Cadwalader,Wickersham &Taft,where he was co-chair of the firm's litigation department and chair of the white-collar group.[7]. During his time at Cadwalader,Waintstein conducted an investigation which uncovered academic fraud and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The 136-page report[8] detailed a complex,multi-year scheme to inflate the grades of student athletes.[9]
Wainstein's mother,Eleanor Sullivan Wainstein was a defense research analyst with the Rand Corporation from 1952 to 1989. For more than 30 years she specialized in U.S.-Soviet economic research.[16]
Wainstein has two siblings:Anne W. Bond and Richard Wainstein.[16]
In 2020,Wainstein,along with over 130 other former Republican elected officials,cabinet members,and Ambassadors,signed a statement outlining a series of national security concerns.[17] Months later,Wainstein joined with 19 other Republican-appointed former U.S. attorneys endorsing Joe Biden.[18]
1 2 "Kenneth L. Wainstein, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security." Roll call vote 217, via Senate.gov
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