Clay West is an attorney working as defense counsel in two cases before the Guantanamo Military Commissions. He received his law degree from Yale Law School, his master's degree from Cambridge University, and his bachelor's degree from Harvard College.  After law school, Clay worked as a law clerk for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and for a judge on the California Supreme Court.  He served as a federal criminal prosecutor in Chicago and deployed on a combat tour with the U.S. Army to Afghanistan and Iraq, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.  Clay grew upon a small grain farm in Cottonwood, Illinois and now hails from Chicago.