Grad’98 Alum Nominated by President Joe Biden in the Forty-Sixth Round of Judicial Nominees
We are thrilled to congratulate and recognise our Grad’98 alum Karissa Lanham on her nomination by President Joe Biden in […]
We are thrilled to congratulate and recognise our Grad’98 alum Karissa Lanham on her nomination by President Joe Biden in the Forty-Sixth Round of Judicial Nominees. A well-deserved recognition of her legal excellence.
Krissa M. Lanham has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona since 2009. She has served as Appellate Chief in that office since 2020, after previously serving as the Deputy Appellate Chief and Human Trafficking Coordinator. Ms. Lanham served as a law clerk for Judge Barry G. Silverman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2008 to 2009 and for Judge Robert N. Chatigny on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut from 2007 to 2008. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007 and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University in 2002.
