Draft:Carmen Iguina González

Carmen Iguina González is an American lawyer who is a nominee to serve as a judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Education
Iguina González received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 2005, receiving the Gordon W. Allport Prize for Distinguished Senior Thesis. She received a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law in 2010. She attended law school as a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar and served articles editor of the New York University Law Review.

Career
Iguina González served as a law clerk to several judges, specifically Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 2010 to 2011, Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2011 to 2012 and Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court from 2017 to 2018. From 2012 to 2014, she was a Equal Justice Works Fellow and from 2014 to 2017, she was a staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California. From 2018 to 2020, she worked as an associate at Jones Day. Since 2022, she has been a counsel at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP in Washington, D.C., and director of the Howard University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic since 2024.

Nomination to D.C. court of appeals
On February 8, 2024, Iguina González, along with Joseph R. Palmore and one other candidate, was recommended by the D.C. Nominating Commission to fill the vacancy left by Judge AliKhan. On April 17, 2024, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Iguina González to serve as a judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. On April 18, 2024, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Iguina González to the seat vacated by Judge Loren AliKhan, who was elevated to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on December 13, 2023. Her nomination is pending before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Recognition and awards
In 2023, she was named the Hispanic Attorney of the Year by the Hispanic Bar Association of DC.