Tana Lin
Tana Lin (born September 15, 1966) is a Taiwanese-American lawyer from Washington who is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Early life and education. Lin was born in Taipei and moved to the United States as a child. She lived in Lawrence, Kansas, while her father was a graduate student at the University of Kansas before the family eventually settled in Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, from Cornell University in 1988 and her Juris Doctor from the New York University School of  Law in 1991. Legal career. Lin began her legal career as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1995. From 1995 to 1999, she was an attorney with the United States Department of Justice Employment Litigation Section. From 1999 to 2001, she was a senior trial attorney at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Chicago district office. From 2001 to 2004, she was the litigation coordinator at the Michigan Poverty Law Program. From 2004 to 2021, she was with Keller Rohrback, first as an associate from 2004 to 2007 , as a partner from 2008 to 2019, and as of counsel from 2020 to 2021. Lin served on the board of directors for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Washington from 2016 to 2021 and as the board's president 2019 to 2021. Federal judicial service. On April 29, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Lin to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington to the seat vacated by Judge Marsha J. Pechman, who took senior status on February 6, 2016. On June 9, 2021, a hearing on  her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On July 15, 2021, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 11–10 vote; Senator Lindsey Graham passed on the vote. On October 21, 2021, her nomination was confirmed in the United States Senate by a vote of 52–45 after the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination earlier that day by a vote of 52-47. She received her commission on November 23, 2021. Upon her swearing in, Lin became the district's first Asian American Article III judge. Personal life. Lin and her husband, Paul Holland, have two children . Holland is also a lawyer who was previously a professor at the Seattle University School of Law.