Judge Florence Y. Pan is the only judge who has served on all four local and federal courts in the District of Columbia.  She was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on September 28, 2022.  Before that, she was a United Stated District Judge for the District of Columbia for one year and an Associate Judge of the D.C. Superior Court for 12 years.  On the Superior Court, she served in the Criminal Division, the Civil Division and the Family Court, presiding over more than 650 trials.  She also sat by designation on the D.C. Court of Appeals twice.  Before her elevation to the bench, Judge Pan was a federal and local prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for a decade, serving as the Deputy Chief of the Appellate Division for two years.  She has also worked at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Domestic Finance; and at the U.S. Department of Justice, as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General and in the Appellate Section of the Criminal Division.  She began her legal career as law clerk to the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and to the Honorable Ralph K. Winter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  Judge Pan received two undergraduate degrees, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania; and her law degree, with distinction, from Stanford Law School.  Before law school, she was a financial analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department at Goldman Sachs.