Background
He was born in Manhattan, New York to Gladys and Mitch Wenzel, brother of Maura, Rachel and Heather.
He was born in Manhattan, New York to Gladys and Mitch Wenzel, brother of Maura, Rachel and Heather.
He studied abroad at Tel Aviv University and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law in 1994.
Wenzel spent his childhood years in the Bronx and in Monroe, New New York He was a graduate of Monroe-Woodbury Senior High School in 1987, and Binghamton University in 1991. After graduating, Wenzel worked as an Assistant Public Defender for Miami-Dade County, Florida for three years.
He then worked as Bar Counsel for the Florida Bar.
Wenzel was a police academy instructor for the Miami-Dade Community College-North Campus School of Justice and Safety Administration, Assistant Public Defender for Dade County and also served on the Florida Bar Counsel where he tried Supreme Court cases. Wenzel was a ten-time marathon runner and finisher, three-time Ironman finisher as well as a world traveler.
At the time of his death, Wenzel was 33 years old, he was employed as a clandestine officer of the Central Intelligence Agency Central Intelligence Agency and was stationed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia until he was killed in a tragic car accident on July 9, 2003. On June 1, 2009 the Central Intelligence Agency uncovered Gregg"s identity as a clandestine services officer
On July 23, 2012 the United States House of Representatives passed bill Human Resources 3593 designating the Wenzel"s local United States Postal Service Office in Monroe, New York as the "National Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency National Clandestine Service Officer Gregg David Wenzel Memorial Post Office.".