What is Lucy Koh?
{{Infobox judge |name = Lucy Koh |image = 20151027 Hon. Lucy Koh ASA 9355 43 19 pp.jpg | office = Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]] | appointer = [[Joe Biden]] | term_start = December 14, 2021 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Richard Paez]] | successor = |office1 = Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of California]] |appointer1 = [[Barack Obama]] |term_start1 = June 9, 2010 |term_end1 = December 15, 2021 |predecessor1 = [[Ronald Whyte]] |successor1 = ''Vacant'' |birth_name = Lucy Haeran Koh |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|8|7}} |birth_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |spouse = [[Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar]] |children = 2 |education = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]]) }} '''Lucy Haeran Koh''' (born August 7, 1968) is an American politician and lawyer. She is the [[United States federal judge|United States Circuit Judge]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]] since 2021. She was nominated to the court by President [[Joe Biden]]. She is the first [[Korea]]n [[Americans|American]] woman to be a [[United States federal judge#Tenure and salary|federal appellate court]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Egelko |first1=Bob |title=Local judge becomes first Korean American woman to serve on a federal appellate court |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Local-judge-becomes-first-Korean-American-woman-16699588.php |access-date=December 16, 2021 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=December 14, 2021}}</ref> Koh was a [[United States federal judge|United States District