Maribeth Raffinan at a glance
- Current role
- Associate Judge
- Jurisdiction
- District of Columbia · State
- Judicial service
- Active
Maribeth Raffinan
Associate Judge · Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Biography
Professional career
- Judge Raffinan also worked as an adjunct professor in the Spring Semester of 2006 at her alma mater, The Columbus School of Law for the Catholic University of America, where she taught a clinical seminar on Client Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiating and, prior to that, served as a teaching assistant at the law school with Federal Public Defender, Mr. Neil Jaffee, in a course on appellate advocacy
- From March 1996 to September 1999, Judge Raffinan worked with the Federal Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia
Education
- Boston College — 1992
Additional information
- Nominated by President Barack Obama on July 28, 2010 and confirmed by the Senate on September 30, 2010
- Instructor for the AFL/CIO Coordinating Committee Litigation Skills Training in 2007 and 2009 and served on the DC Bar Committee on Criminal Law and Individual Rights in 2010 prior to her nomination
- During her tenure at PDS, in addition to her trial responsibilities, Judge Raffinan also co-chaired the 2006 Deborah T. Creek Criminal Practice Institute, served on the Superior Court’s Drug Court Committee, performed trainings for Criminal Justice Act panel attorneys, led trial practice groups and served as a rotating attorney with the Special Litigation Division
- Date of birth: 1970-09-02
- As a member of APABA, she served on a panel discussing career options for law school students, served on the Government Attorney Forum Committee and participated in the Mentor/Mentee Program
- Birth place: Cincinnati, Ohio
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Sources
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Biography sources checked August 2, 2026.
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