Shana Frost Matini

Shana Frost Matini was appointed Magistrate Judge by Chief Judge Lee F. Satterfield on January 4, 2016. Judge Matini received her Bachelor of Arts degree in international affairs from the George Washington University. Prior to law school, Judge Matini taught English at the Language Teacher's Training College in Slupsk, Poland. She returned to the District of Columbia to attend law school at the District of Columbia School of Law (now the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law) where she graduated magna cum laude in 1996. After law school, Judge Matini served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Richard A. Levie of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Prior to her appointment as a Magistrate Judge, Judge Matini served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. In that position, Judge Matini served as lead counsel in civil cases brought against the District of Columbia in both the local and federal courts, defending the District and its employees in a wide variety of cases involving alleged constitutional violations, as well as common law torts and statutory violations. Prior to her work with the Office of the Attorney General, Judge Matini worked with Judge Levie for several years in his capacity as Special Master in the federal RICO lawsuit brought by the United States government against the tobacco industry, and served as Senior Legal Fellow for the Einstein Institute for Science, Health and the Courts.