Judge Loren L. AliKhan was appointed to the District Court in December 2023.  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Bard College at Simon’s Rock in 2003, and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 2006. 

After graduating from law school, Judge AliKhan clerked for the Honorable Louis H. Pollak on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  After her clerkships, Judge AliKhan served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice and as a Temple Bar Scholar in London, England, where she worked with Lord David Hope of Craighead, then a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. 

In 2010, Judge AliKhan joined the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group in the Washington, D.C. office of O’Melveny & Myers, LLP.  There, she had an active pro bono practice and assisted with the firm’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Clinic at Harvard Law School and with the legal writing program at Yale Law School.

In 2013, Judge AliKhan was appointed as Deputy Solicitor General in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, and in 2018, she was elevated to Solicitor General.  During her nine years in the District’s Office of the Solicitor General, Judge AliKhan handled nearly 3,000 cases in the District’s federal and local courts.  In 2020, she was the recipient of the National Association of Attorneys General’s “Senior Staff of the Year.”

In February 2022, Judge AliKhan was appointed to the D.C. Court of Appeals.  She served as an Associate Judge there until her appointment to the District Court.

Judge AliKhan served on the D.C. Circuit’s Advisory Committee on Procedures from 2017 until her appointment to the bench.  She is a member of the American Law Institute and sits on the boards of the American Inns of Court, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and the Lawyers’ Club of Washington.