The Honorable Kelly A. Higashi, an Associate Judge of the D.C. Superior Court, is this year’s winner of the Robert A. Shuker Memorial Award. This annual award is presented to a former AUSA who demonstrates distinguished contributions to the administration of justice while emulating the outstanding qualities of Judge Robert A. Shuker: integrity, scholarship, hard work, wit, and exceptional demeanor. Judge Higashi was an AUSA from 1994 until her appointment to the Superior Court bench in 2018. For fifteen of her twenty-our years at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Judge Higashi served as Chief of the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section.