- Judge Shanlyn Park was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii on November 30, 2023.
- Previously, she served as a state court judge on the First Circuit Court on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, a role she had since 2021.
- Previously, Judge Park worked at the Honolulu law firms McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon, L.L.P. and Gallagher Kane Amai & Reyes.
- Between 1997 and 2017, Judge Park was an assistant federal public defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Hawaiʻi.
- Before that, Judge Park was in private practice at Hisaka Stone & Goto from 1996 to 1997. She clerked for Judge Francis I. Yamashita from 1995 to 1996.
- Judge Park received her J.D. from the University of Hawaiʻi William S. Richardson School of Law in 1995 and her B.A. from Chaminade University of Honolulu in 1991.