Education
Harvard Law School.
Harvard Law School.
He is admitted to the United States. District Court for districts of Southern and Eastern New York, the United States. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Ninth circuits, and the United States. Supreme Court. Wax earned a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Colgate University in 1970 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1974. He started in 1979 as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York and became the Public Defender in Broome County, New York from 1979 through 1983.
He was an adjunct professor at Lewis & Clark Law School from 1985 through 1993 and in 2001.
Wax is married to Kathleen Haley, the Executive Director of the Oregon Medical Board.
Wax defended several of the detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
He has been a member of the Oregon State Bar since 1983 and is also a member of the New York State Bar.