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Florence Y. Pan

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit · 2021–2022

Florence Y. Pan, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Senate voted 68–30 on the nomination on Sep 23, 2021 (Nomination Confirmed). Florence Yu Pan (Chinese: 潘愉; pinyin: Pān Yú; born 1966) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 2021 to 2022 and a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 2009 to 2021.

Senate votes
2

Senate confirmation votes

  • United States District Judge for the District of Columbia
    117th Congress · Nomination Confirmed
    68–30 · Sep 23, 2021
  • United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit
    117th Congress · Nomination Confirmed
    52–42 · Sep 20, 2022

Education

  • University of PennsylvaniaB.A., B.S., 1988
  • Stanford Law SchoolJ.D., 1993

Career

Law clerk, Hon. Michael B. Mukasey, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1993-1994; Law clerk, Hon. Ralph K. Winter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1994-1995; U.S. Department of Justice, 1995-1998; Bristow Fellow, Office of the Solicitor General, 1995-1996; attorney, Appellate Section, Criminal Division, 1996-1998; Special assistant U.S. attorney, District of Columbia, 1997; U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1998-1999; senior advisor to the Undersecretary for Financial Markets, 1998; senior advisor to the Undersecretary for Domestic Finance, 1999; Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Columbia, 1999-2009; Adjunct professor of law, American University Washington College of Law, 2007-2008; Adjunct professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, 2012-

Biography

Florence Yu Pan (Chinese: 潘愉; pinyin: Pān Yú; born 1966) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 2021 to 2022 and a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 2009 to 2021.

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