Elaine Zhong is currently a deputy city attorney at the Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney, where she focuses on housing law. Previously, she was litigation associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. She was also a term law clerk to the Honorable Ronald S.W. Lew of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. Outside of her practice, she sits on the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Judicial Appointments Committee and the California Lawyers Association - Committee on Federal Courts.

She earned her BA from UC Berkeley, and JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she was an editor of the Hastings Law Journal and teaching assistant in the Legal Writing and Research program.