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Shana Frost Matini is an Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. In February 2018, Matini was nominated by President Donald Trump to a 15-year term as an associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 1, 2019. Matini was a magistrate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 2016 to 2019.
Matini received her B.A. from George Washington University and her J.D. from the District of Columbia School of Law. After law school, she clerked for Richard A. Levie of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Prior to becoming a judge, Matini taught English at the Language Teacher's Training College in Slupsk, Poland. She served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Matini has also served as Senior Legal Fellow for the Einstein Institute for Science, Health and the Courts.