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Biography
Darlene Michele Soltys is an Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Education and career
Soltys earned her Bachelor of Arts from University of Maryland, in 1987, and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, in 1990.
After graduating law school, Soltys served as a law clerk for the judge Gregory E. Mize of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. In 1992, she served as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia until 1996 when she became a Assistant State’s Attorney in Prince George's County, Maryland. In 2003, she went on to in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia as Assistant United States Attorney.
D.C. Superior Court
President Barack Obama nominated Soltys on July 9, 2015, to a 15-year term as an associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by Natalia Combs Greene. On December 3, 2015, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on his nomination. On December 17, 2016, the Committee reported his nomination favorably to the senate floor and later that day, the Senate confirmed her nomination by voice vote. She was sworn in on March 18, 2016.