Heidi M. Pasichow | |
Office1: | Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
President1: | George W. Bush |
Term Start1: | August 25, 2008 |
Predecessor1: | Anna Blackburne-Rigsby |
Birth Date: | 24 May 1955[1] |
Birth Place: | Queens, New York, U.S. |
Education: | George Washington University (BA) American University (JD) |
Heidi M. Pasichow (born May 24, 1955) is an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.[2] [3]
Pasichow earned her Bachelor of Arts from George Washington University in 1977, and her Juris Doctor from Washington College of Law in 1981.[4]
After graduating, she clerked for Judge Sylvia Bacon of the D.C. Superior Court from 1983 to 1985.
On December 5, 2006, President George W. Bush nominated her to be an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Her nomination expired on December 9, 2006, with the end of the 109th United States Congress.[5]
President Bush renominated her on January 9, 2007, to a 15-year term as an associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, filling the seat vacated by Anna Blackburne-Rigsby.[6] The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on her nomination on July 23, 2008. The committee reported her nomination favorably to the Senate floor on July 30, 2008. The full Senate confirmed her nomination by voice vote on August 1, 2008,.[7] She was sworn in on August 25, 2008.