The Honorable Veronica M. Sanchez

Judge Veronica M. Sanchez was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on July 14, 2022. Her nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 15, 2022.

Judge Sanchez was raised in South Florida. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and her Juris Doctor degree from the UCLA School of Law.

After law school, Judge Sanchez served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Edward C. Reed of the United States District Court, District of Nevada. Judge Sanchez then clerked for the Honorable Melvin T. Brunetti, United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 

In the fall of 2002, Judge Sanchez joined the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice as a trial attorney through the Attorney General’s Honors Program. At the Antitrust Division, Judge Sanchez investigated and litigated telecommunications and media mergers as well as civil non-merger violations of the antitrust laws. In October 2009, Judge Sanchez was sworn in as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, where she served for thirteen years until her appointment to the Superior Court bench. For the last two years, Judge Sanchez served as the Chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Major Crimes Section. In that capacity, Judge Sanchez led a section of approximately thirty prosecutors who investigated and prosecuted felony violent crime matters before the Superior Court.

As an Assistant United States Attorney, Judge Sanchez investigated and tried numerous criminal cases in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Sanchez served as a senior trial attorney in the Homicide Section where she prosecuted homicide cases in Superior Court. She also served as a senior trial attorney in the Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office investigating and prosecuting matters in the United States District Court. Judge Sanchez has been awarded several U.S. Attorney’s Awards for Special Achievement.