Donald Yu serves as Special Counsel to the General Counsel. In this role, Don serves as a principal advisor to the General Counsel on Federal education law and policy.

Prior to joining OGC, Don worked at Blankingship & Keith and Franczek Radelet practicing education, labor and employment law. Don received his law degree cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law. During law school, he served as the Note and Comment Editor on the Journal of International Human Rights. Prior to law school, he worked as a high school English teacher at a Quaker school in the Philadelphia area, where he received a yearbook dedication. Don also received his bachelor and master's degrees in English from Columbia University.