Judge Dimke was appointed on January 14, 2016. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law and Pepperdine University.
She served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Washington (2012-2016) and Western District of Washington (2008-2012), Honors Program Trial Attorney with the Department of Justice in Washington, DC from 2004 to 2007, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard C. Tallman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2003-2004) and the Honorable Alan B. Johnson, U.S. District Court, District of Wyoming (2002-2003).