Yelena Vladimirovna Nam and Nicholas Robert Cavanaugh were married Nov. 17 at the Scripps Seaside Forum, an event space in San Diego. Gonzalo P. Curiel, a federal judge for the Southern District of California, for whom the bride clerked from 2015-16, officiated.
The couple met as freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, from which they graduated.
Ms. Nam, 31, is a corporate associate specializing in mergers and acquisitions in New York at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. She received a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
She is a daughter of Dr. Evgenia D. Pak and Vladimir V. Nam of North Potomac, Md. The bride’s father works in Rockville, Md., as a senior research associate for Novavax, a clinical-stage vaccine company in Gaithersburg, Md. Her mother is cytogeneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
Until this month, Mr. Cavanaugh, 30, worked in Greenwich, Conn., as an analyst in the commodities group of Citadel, a Chicago-based hedge fund. He received a Ph.D. in oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
He is the son of Barbara S. Menendez of Kenmore, Wash., and Robert H. Cavanaugh of Bellevue, Wash. The groom’s mother works in Seattle as a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines. His father, who is retired, was a traffic operations engineer for the City of Renton in Washington.
