Y. Ping Sun came to Houston from New York City in 2004, when her husband David W. Leebron became Rice University's seventh president.
A native of Shanghai, China, Ping attended Tianjin Foreign Languages School and Beijing Languages and Culture University. She received a full scholarship to Princeton University, where she graduated cum laude with an AB degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She received a law degree from Columbia University School of Law, where she served as an editor of the Journal of Transnational Law.
After graduation, Ping practiced law in the New York offices of White & Case LLP and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP. In Houston, Ping is of counsel with the law firm of Yetter Coleman LLP.
