The Honorable Jason Park

Judge Park was appointed to the D.C. Superior Court bench in 2019 and is currently assigned to the Criminal Division. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. After graduation from law school, Judge Park worked as an associate in the New York office of a large law firm before returning to Washington D.C. to serve as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Ricardo M. Urbina of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Following his clerkship, Judge Park joined the white collar criminal defense group of a Washington D.C. firm. In 2012, Judge Park was sworn in as an Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he served as a Deputy Chief and then the Chief of the office’s Major Crimes Unit, leading a section of prosecutors handling serious felony violent crime matters and local economic fraud cases in Superior Court. He also served as Deputy Chief of the office’s Felony Trial Unit, supervising a team prosecuting felony firearms and narcotics offenses in Superior Court. Before becoming a supervisor, Judge Park prosecuted violent crime cases in Superior Court, specializing in child sexual and physical abuse matters, adult sexual assault, and domestic violence cases. He also served as the office’s Project Safe Child Coordinator, handling child exploitation and juvenile sex trafficking matters in federal district court, and served as co-chair of the office’s Legislative Working Group. During his tenure as an Assistant United States Attorney, Judge Park was awarded the United States Attorney’s Impact Award, the FBI Washington Field Office Service Award, and several United States Attorney’s Awards for Special Achievement.

Judge Park serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He and his wife are the proud parents of two sons.