Mia Roberts Perez is a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, having been nominated and confirmed under Joe Biden in 2022 . She previously served as a judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas from 2016 to 2022. Her legal career began as an assistant public defender at the Defender Association of Philadelphia from 2006 to 2010, where she gained trial experience representing indigent defendants . She then worked as an associate at Friedman Schuman in Philadelphia before founding her own firm, Perez Law LLC, where she practiced from 2011 until her election to the bench . Throughout her career as a litigator, she tried approximately 1,000 cases to verdict or final decision . Judge Perez earned her Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University in 2003 and her Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2006, where she also served as an adjunct professor teaching trial advocacy from 2011 to 2021 . Her accomplishments include being the first Asian American judge and the second Latina judge to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, receiving a unanimous "well qualified" rating from the American Bar Association, and serving on the Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania by appointment of Governor Tom Wolf.

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