The Hon. Veronica M. Sanchez is an associate judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Sanchez was nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden on July 14, 2022, filling a seat vacated by the Hon. John Ramsey Johnson. Her nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 15, 2022.
Prior to her appointment, Sanchez was an assistant United States attorney with the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, a position to which she was named in 2009. During her tenure there, she held assignments as Deputy Chief of the Major Crimes Section. Before that, she spent time as a trial attorney for the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, litigating telecommunications and media mergers as well as civil non-merger violations of antitrust laws (2002 to 2009).
Sanchez earned a bachelor’s degree in public policy studies from Duke University in 1996. She then completed a J.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law in 1999.
After graduating from law school, Sanchez began her legal career as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Edward Cornelius Reed, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. She served in that capacity until 2001, at which time she became the judicial law clerk to the Hon. Melvin T. Brunetti of the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
Sanchez was raised in South Florida.