Debra Wong Yang (Chinese: 楊黃金玉; pinyin: Yáng Huáng Jīnyù) is the former United States Attorney for the Central District of California.

She was appointed in May 2002 by President George W. Bush, who made her the first Asian American woman to serve as a United States Attorney.

[citation needed] Yang served as an Assistant United States Attorney for approximately seven years prior to her judicial career.

As an Assistant United States Attorney, Yang successfully prosecuted a number of high-profile cases, including a Glendale arson investigator convicted of setting fires throughout the state of California; the first federal carjacking case in California; the kidnapping of a local real estate agent; and a computer hacker who received what was then the longest prison sentence for computer intrusion.

[citation needed] Yang resigned her position as the United States Attorney for the Central District of California on November 11, 2006, to join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

Yang's office had opened an investigation into the relationship between Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) and a lobbyist five months before she left to join the law firm that represented Rep.