Judith Bartnoff at a glance
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- Senior Judge
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- District of Columbia · State
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Judith Bartnoff
Senior Judge · Superior Court of the District of Columbia
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Biography
Professional career
- Before entering private practice, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, and she was awarded a Special Achievement Award and the Director’s Award for Superior Performance, as well as commendations from over twenty federal agencies.
- Judge Bartnoff has served on a number of court committees, including the Rules Committee and the Mental Health Rules Advisory Committee, and she has chaired the Advisory Committees on the Civil Rules and the Landlord and Tenant Rules.
- Before being appointed to the Superior Court, Judge Bartnoff was a partner at Patton Boggs.
- Before joining the Justice Department, she was a staff attorney at the Council for Public Interest Law.
- Before joining the United States Attorney’s Office, she served as Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division and then as an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice.
- She also was an Associate Independent Counsel in the Clinton passport investigation.
Judicial service
- Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1994-present
- Prior to her recent assignments to the Criminal Division, she served as Presiding Judge of the Civil Division, and she was a member of the Chief Judge’s leadership team from 2011-2016.
- Judge Judith Bartnoff was appointed to the District of Columbia Superior Court in 1994 by President William Jefferson Clinton.
- In 2017 and 2018, she presided over a Felony 1 calendar.
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center · LL.M.
- Columbia Law School · J.D.
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