Shah also served as a law clerk for Judge Debra Ann Livingston on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Amul R. Thapar on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
She graduated from Yale Law School in 2015 and specializes in business litigation, and in appeals, issues and strategy, according to a report by American Bazaar. Before law school, Sopen was a financial analyst at Bloomberg and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, as per Perkins Coie website.
If Shah’s nomination is confirmed she would be the second woman to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Madison after Peg Lautenschlager, who was in the office during Bill Clinton’s presidency from 1993 to 2001.