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# Errol R. Arthur

Superior Court of the District of Columbia · Associate Judge

## Profile

- Court: Superior Court of the District of Columbia
- State: District of Columbia
- Role: Associate Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-29

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Biography

### Professional career

- Errol Rajesh Arthur is an American lawyer who has held the role of an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia since 2023
- Nominated by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on December 15, 2021
- Magistrate Judge in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from August 2010 until his confirmation as an Associate Judge
- In 2008, Judge Arthur was appointed as Chairman of the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics and served as an adjunct professor and supervising attorney with the Howard University School of Law’s Criminal Justice Clinic
- Before his appointment to the Court, Judge Arthur joined the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) as a staff attorney in 1999, and opened his own law practice in 2002.
- Following law school, Judge Arthur clerked for the Honorable Mary A. Gooden Terrell in the D.C. Superior Court
- Magistrate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia (“DC Superior Court”)

### Education

- Law degree — Howard University School of Law — 1998

### Additional information

- His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 15, 2022.
- Born January 15, 1972.
- Judge Arthur has presided over numerous bench trials in neglect and abuse cases, as well as arraignments and detention hearings in both juvenile and adult cases.
- Judge Arthur has also served as a visiting faculty member of Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop, adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and Chair of the Washington Bar Association’s Judicial Council.

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### recording and rebroadcasting

Scope: courtwide

Recording, photographing, or rebroadcasting a remote Superior Court hearing is not allowed.

Evidence excerpt: Audio and video recording, taking pictures of remote hearings, and sharing the live or recorded remote hearing by rebroadcasting, live-streaming, or otherwise are not allowed.

[Hearing Information](https://www.dccourts.gov/superior-court/hearing-information)
Source checked: 2026-07-27


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://www.dccourts.gov/superior-court/superior-court-judges/arthur-errol-r)
- [Official roster](https://www.dccourts.gov/superior-court/superior-court-judges/arthur-errol-r)
- [District of Columbia Courts official judicial roster](https://www.dccourts.gov/superior-court/superior-court-judges/arthur-errol-r)
- [Hearing Information](https://www.dccourts.gov/superior-court/hearing-information)
- [The Honorable Errol R. Arthur](https://www.dccourts.gov/superior-court/superior-court-judges/arthur-errol-r)

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