The Hon. Jason Park is an associate judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Park was nominated to the bench by former President Donald Trump on January 24, 2019. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 1, 2019.
Prior to his appointment, Park was an assistant United States attorney with the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, a position to which he was named in 2012. During his tenure there, he prosecuted violent crimes, specializing in sexual assault and child sexual and physical abuse cases. He also sat as the Deputy Chief of the Felony Major Crimes Section.
Park earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. He then completed a J.D. at the Georgetown University Law Center in 2006.
After graduating from law school, Park began his legal career as an associate at Chadbourne & Parke in New York City. He spent the next three years handling complex commercial litigation with the firm, eventually leaving to become a law clerk to the Hon. Ricardo M. Urbina of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Then, after the conclusion of his clerkship, Park returned to private practice, this time with a white collar criminal defense group in Washington, D.C.
Raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Park attended Central High School. He and his wife have two children.