Trial Judge Nominated as Jackson’s Successor on DC Circuit (3)

President Joe Biden nominated district Judge Florence Pan to the seat on the powerful federal appeals court vacated by soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

In addition to Pan’s selection on Wednesday to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Biden also nominated Rachel Bloomekatz, a public interest lawyer, to the Sixth Circuit and federal Magistrate Judge Doris Pryor to the Seventh Circuit.

A former prosecutor, Pan has served on the US District Court for the District of Columbia since 2021 and was previously a judge on the Superior Court for the District of Columbia ...