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Michael Hun Park (born April 1, 1976) is a partner at Consovoy McCarthy Park PLLC and a United States Circuit Judge–Designate of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Early life and career

Park earned his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2001, where he served as managing editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduating from law school, Park served as a law clerk to then-Judge Samuel Alito of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. From 2002–2006, he was an associate in the New York City office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.

Park was an attorney-advisor in the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel for two years, and then again clerked for Alito during the 2008–2009 term after he became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. There, he was a co-clerk with Andy Oldham. He was counsel at Dechert from 2009–2011 and a partner from 2012–2015. From 2015–2019, he practiced as a name partner at the boutique litigation firm Consovoy McCarthy Park PLLC.

In 2016, Park represented the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in its effort to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

Park is an adjunct professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School, where he teaches the Supreme Court Clinic.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Supreme Court Historical Society, the Board of Directors of Operation Exodus Inner City, and the Asian American Bar Association of New York. Park is a member of the Federalist Society.

Nomination to court of appeals

On October 10, 2018, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Park to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Park will be the second Asian Pacific American and the first Korean American to serve on the Second Circuit. On November 13, 2018, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Trump nominated Park to the seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated by Judge Gerard E. Lynch, who took senior status on December 31, 2016.

On January 3, 2019, his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. On January 23, 2019, President Trump announced his intent to renominate Park for a federal judgeship. His nomination was sent to the Senate later that day On February 13, 2019, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On March 7, 2019, his nomination was reported out of committee by a party-line 12–10 vote. On May 8, 2019, the U.S. Senate voted to invoke cloture on his nomination by a vote of 51–43. On May 9, 2019, his nomination was confirmed by a vote of 52–41. He is currently awaiting his judicial commission.

Personal life

Park is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

References

1. The Vetting Room
2. "Masthead-Board of editors". Yale Law Journal. 2000–2001. Retrieved October 11, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
3. "Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel, Vol 32, 2008". United States Department of Justice. 2014. p. iv. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
4. Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States before the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate. Diane Publishing. 2006. p. 1026. ISBN 9781422332429. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
5. "Press release: Dechert's Michael H. Park Named Among 'Best Lawyers Under 40' by National Asian Pacific American Bar Association" (PDF). Dechert. November 19, 2013. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
6. Lat, David (May 28, 2015). "Prominent Young Partners Leave Biglaw For A High-Powered Boutique". Above The Law. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
7. "AABANY in the News". Asian American Bar Association of New York. 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
8. ^ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Eighteenth Wave of Judicial Nominees, Eighteenth Wave of United States Attorney Nominees, and Thirteenth Wave of United States Marshal Nominees". whitehouse.gov. October 10, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
9. Margolies, Dan (June 12, 2016). "Kansas Retains High-Powered Law Firm In Planned Parenthood Battle". Junction City Post. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
10. "Legal Clinic – Supreme Court". Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
11. "Michael H. Park bio". The Federalist Society. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
12. Tae-hee, Lee (December 11, 2018). "Korean-American judges gaining presence in US". The Korea Herald. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
13. "Twenty Six Nominations Sent to the Senate", White House, November 13, 2018
14. "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Judicial Nominees", White House, January 23, 2019
15. "Nominations Sent to the Senate", White House, January 23, 2019
16. United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Nominations for February 13, 2019
17. Results of Executive Business Meeting – March 7, 2019, Senate Judiciary Committee
18. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=1&vote=00105

Select publications

• Park, Michael H. (September 8, 2014). "Court's 'No-Action' Clause Holding May Surprise Bond Issuers" (PDF). New York Law Journal. (posted at Dechert)

External links

• Michael H. Park at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• Bio, Consovoy McCarthy Park PLLC
• Bio, National Review

• 1976 births
• Living people
• 21st-century American lawyers
• 21st-century American judges
• American academics of Korean descent
• American jurists of Korean descent
• Federalist Society members
• George Mason University School of Law faculty
• Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Lawyers from New York City
• Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
• New York (state) lawyers
• New York (state) Republicans
• People from Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Princeton University alumni
• Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology alumni
• United States court of appeals judges appointed by Donald Trump
• United States Department of Justice lawyers
• Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr associates
• Yale Law School alumni