Loren AliKhan

AliKhan is the daughter of immigrants from Pakistan.[1] AliKhan received her Bachelor of Arts from Bard College at Simon's Rock in 2003 and her Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2006.[2]

After graduating from law school, AliKhan clerked for Judges Louis H. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2006-2007) and Thomas L. Ambro of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2007-2008). She was then a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States before joining the Washington, D.C. office of O'Melveny & Meyers. In 2013, AliKhan joined the Office of the District of Columbia Attorney General as a Deputy Solicitor General. In that role, she represented the District of Columbia's interests in appellate litigation before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Supreme Court of the United States, and other appellate tribunals.

On March 1, 2018, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine appointed AliKhan as the District's second Solicitor General, succeeding Todd Kim.[3]

On September 30, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated AliKhan to serve as an Associate Judge for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.[2] President Biden nominated AliKhan to the seat vacated by Judge John R. Fisher, who retired on August 22, 2020.[4] Her nomination is pending before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. On December 2, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.[5]