'a distinguished panel' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to refer to a group of experts that have gathered to discuss a specific topic. Example sentence: A distinguished panel of industry professionals were gathered to discuss the future of the automotive industry.
'Any Poets Around Here?' On May 19 at a benefit for the writers' organization PEN, a distinguished panel will gather at Town Hall to ruminate on Dylan's ubiquity.
In Vermont, a distinguished panel of judges, including an odor expert for NASA, scrutinized Ms. Fahey's sneakers and those of her competitors.
In 2004, he told a distinguished panel of scientists pondering the future of the space telescope that it was worth risking his life for.
To lend it an aura of respectability, his aides point out repeatedly that the president got many of his ideas from a distinguished panel of experts led by an American economist and Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Hack Attack: How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch is one of six books chosen by a distinguished panel of judges, chaired by the FT's editor, Lionel Barber.
Entries will be judged by a distinguished panel from different areas of Europe and under the chairmanship of Sir Harold Evans- editor of Thomson Reuters and former editor of The Sunday Times.
A discussion of contemporary Romanian cinema with Romanian filmmakers and critics can sometimes resemble that scene: "Is there or is there not a Romanian new wave?" Or, as it was put recently, with some irreverence, before a very distinguished panel at a contentious public debate held at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, "Romanian Cinema: The Golden Age?" Compared with what?
The awards will continue to honour an eclectic range of performers and the winners will be selected by a distinguished independent panel of judges.
Next week, three finalists will emerge from a full day of competition, presenting their business plans to different judges and answering their questions, and will then square off for the grand prize by presenting their business plans for an audience of 400 invited guests and distinguished panel of judges.
Once again, the pronouncement that comes from the chair of this year's distinguished panel of judges – writers and critics both, who have made a life out of thinking about fiction and what makes it valuable – is privileged over those other, more informed voices, to have the soundbite that carries.
According to our distinguished panel, She is still the Silver Fern's best goaling option by a long shot.
