President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Loren AliKhan to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where, if confirmed, she would be the first South Asian woman on that bench.

Before joining the D.C. appeals court, AliKhan served as solicitor general of the District of Columbia after joining the D.C. Attorney General's Office in 2013. As solicitor general, she argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that then-President Donald Trump operated his Trump International Hotel in D.C. in violation of the Constitution's Emoluments Clause.