Vijay Shanker
Vijay Shanker is a Washington, D.C. lawyer who is a nominee to be a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.Education
Shanker earned his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Duke University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law where he served as a Notes Editor for the Virginia Law Review, received the Roger & Madeleine Traynor Prize and the Law School Alumni Association Best Note Award, and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.Career
After graduating, Shanker served as a law clerk to Judge Chester J. Straub of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He joined the United States Department of Justice in 2005, and currently serves as Senior Litigation Counsel in the criminal division and as Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section. He was previously in private practice with the Washington, D.C., offices of Mayer Brown and Covington & Burling.On June 25, 2020, President Trump nominated Shanker to be a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to the seat to be vacated by Judge John R. Fisher who will retire on August 22, 2020. His nomination is currently pending before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
