[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 200 (Tuesday, December 5, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5727-S5728]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                     Nomination of Loren L. AliKhan

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, today the Senate will vote to confirm 
Loren L. AliKhan to the U.S. District Court for the District of 
Columbia.
  Born in Baltimore, MD, Judge AliKhan earned her J.D., magna cum 
laude, at the Georgetown University Law Center. She also received her 
B.A., summa cum laude, and A.A., with distinction, from Bard College at 
Simon's Rock. After law school, Judge AliKhan completed clerkships on 
the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and on 
the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She then served as a Bristow Fellow 
in the Solicitor General's Office at the U.S. Department of Justice. 
Judge AliKhan then worked as an associate and later counsel at 
O'Melveny & Myers LLP. There, she represented companies in matters 
involving contract interpretation, statutory interpretation, class 
certification, antitrust, patent infringement, and products liability.
  From 2018 to 2022, Judge AliKhan served as solicitor general in the 
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia after 
previously serving as acting solicitor general and deputy solicitor 
general. In that role, she was responsible for the District's 
litigation in local and Federal trial and appellate courts on issues 
including constitutional law, criminal law, employment discrimination, 
tax, and torts. In 2022, Judge AliKhan was confirmed to the DC Court of 
Appeals, where she has heard approximately 100

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appeals as a member of a merits panel and has issued 200 decisions as a 
member of a motions panel.
  The American Bar Association rated Judge AliKhan as ``well 
qualified,'' and her nomination is strongly supported by Congresswoman 
Eleanor Holmes Norton.
  The Senate Judiciary Committee also received several letters of 
support for Judge AliKhan's nomination to the Federal bench, including 
from a bipartisan group of current and former State solicitors general 
across the country.
  Judge AliKhan's qualifications, including her judicial and litigation 
experience, make her exceptionally qualified to serve on the Federal 
bench. I am proud to support her nomination and urge my colleagues to 
do the same.
  Mr. HAGERTY. I yield the floor.

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