Krissa M. Lanham was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on May 21, 2024. Previously, she was an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, a role she had had since 2009. Lanham clerked for Judge Barry G. Silverman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Judge Robert N. Chatigny on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007 and her B.A. from Yale University in 2002.