Florence Y. Pan

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American judge (born 1966)

Florence Pan

潘愉

Pan in 2021

Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

**Incumbent **

Assumed office
September 26, 2022Appointed byJoe Biden Preceded byKetanji Brown Jackson Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia In office
September 23, 2021 – September 28, 2022Appointed byJoe Biden Preceded byKetanji Brown JacksonSucceeded bySparkle L. Sooknanan Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia In office
June 8, 2009 – September 23, 2021Appointed byBarack Obama Preceded byLinda Turner HamiltonSucceeded byCarl Ezekiel Ross Personal detailsBorn1966 (age 59–60)

New York City , New York , U.S.

Spouse

Max Stier

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(m. 2004)​

EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA , BS )
Stanford University (JD )Chinese nameChinese 潘愉

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.

Early life and education

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Pan was born in 1966 to a Taiwanese American family in New York City . Her parents had immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in 1961. Her father is Wu-Ching Pan, and her mother is Felicia D. Pan. She grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey .

Pan attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania , graduating in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree, _summa cum laude _. From 1988 to 1990, Pan worked for Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst . She then attended Stanford Law School , where she was an editor of the _Stanford Law Review _ and the Stanford Law and Policy Review and was a finalist in the school's moot court competition. She graduated in 1993 with a Juris Doctor with distinction.

Career

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After graduating from law school, Pan was a law clerk for Judge Michael Mukasey of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1993 to 1994 and for Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1994 to 1995.

Pan worked for the United States Department of Justice as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General from 1995 to 1996 and then as an attorney in the Appellate Section of the Criminal Division from 1996 to 1998. She next worked at the United States Department of Treasury , first as a senior advisor to the assistant secretary for financial markets in 1998 and subsequently as a senior advisor to the undersecretary for domestic finance in 1999.

From 1999 to 2009, she served as an assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia , where she also served as deputy chief of the Appellate Section from 2007 to 2009.

From 2007 to 2008, she was an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law and since 2012, she has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center .

Judicial service

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia service

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