How do judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is presidential appointment.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals / Joined 2009 / Former Judge

Florence Y. Pan

Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Florence Y. Pan was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Pan authored 2 published opinions for the court (2011–2015). Most cited: ANTHONY RICHARDSON and JAMES WALKER v. UNITED STATES (15 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 2 of these were attributed to Pan by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2015	ANTHONY RICHARDSON and JAMES WALKER v. UNITED STATES†	116 A.3d 434	15
2011	Jordan v. Jordan†	14 A.3d 1136	9

Showing the 2 most-cited of 2 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is presidential appointment.
Which court was Florence Y. Pan on?: Florence Y. Pan was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Sources

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17 years on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).