Richard Roberts (District of Columbia)
Richard W. Roberts is a federal judge on senior status with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He joined the court in 1998 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton (D). He served as chief judge of the court from 2013 to 2016. Roberts assumed senior status on March 16, 2016.[1][2]
Early life and education
Roberts earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1974. He earned a master's degree in International Affairs from the School of International Training in 1975. He earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1978.[1]
Professional career
- 2013-2016: Member, Judicial Conference of the United States
- 1995-1998: Chief, Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- 1993-1995: principal assistant U.S. attorney
- 1988-1995: Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Columbia
- 1986-1988: Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York
- 1982-1986: Private practice, Washington, D.C.
- 1978-1982: Trial attorney, Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice[1]
Judicial career
District of Columbia
Roberts was nominated by President Bill Clinton (D) on January 27, 1998, to a seat vacated by Judge Charles Richey when Richey assumed senior status. Roberts was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 5, 1998, and received his commission on June 23, 1998. He became Chief Judge of the court in 2013 and served until March 16, 2016.[1]
See also
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Footnotes
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Charles Richey |
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 1998–2016 |
Succeeded by: Carl Nichols
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: James E. BoasbergChief Judge: Rudolph Contreras • Christopher Reid Cooper • Tanya S. Chutkan • Randolph D. Moss • Amit Priyavadan Mehta • Dabney Friedrich • Timothy J. Kelly (District of Columbia) • Trevor McFadden • Carl Nichols • Katherine E. Oler • Jia Cobb • Loren AliKhan • Ana Reyes • Judith Pipe • Amir Ali • Sparkle Sooknanan | ||
| Senior judges |
Barbara Rothstein • Royce Lamberth • Thomas Hogan • Emmet Sullivan • Henry Kennedy • Richard Roberts (District of Columbia) • Ellen Huvelle • Rosemary Collyer • Reggie Walton • John Bates • Richard Leon • Paul Friedman (District of Columbia) • Joyce Green (District of Columbia) • Amy B. Jackson • Beryl A. Howell • | ||
| Magistrate judges | G. Michael Harvey • Zia Faruqui • | ||
| Former Article III judges |
Michael Boudin • Thomas Anderson (District of Columbia) • William Matthew Merrick • David Kellogg Cartter • George Purnell Fisher • Abram Baldwin Olin • Andrew Wylie • David Campbell Humphreys • Arthur MacArthur • Walter Smith Cox • Alexander Burton Hagner • Charles Pinckney James • Edward Franklin Bingham • Martin Montgomery • Andrew Coyle Bradley • Charles Cleaves Cole • Louis Emory McComas • Thomas H. Anderson • Job Barnard • Harry Clabaugh • Ashley Mulgrave Gould • Jeter Connelly Pritchard • Wendell Phillips Stafford • Daniel Thew Wright (District of Columbia) • Thomas Jennings Bailey • James Harry Covington • William Hitz • Walter Irving McCoy • Frederick Lincoln Siddons • Adolph Hoehling • Peyton Gordon • Louis Oberdorfer • Gladys Kessler • James Robertson (District of Columbia) • Ricardo Urbina • Colleen Kollar-Kotelly • Harold Leventhal • Alfred Adams Wheat • Jesse Corcoran Adkins • Joseph Winston Cox • Oscar Raymond Luhring • Fred Dickinson Letts • Daniel William O'Donoghue • James McPherson Proctor (Federal judge) • Bolitha Laws • Thomas Goldsborough • James W. Morris (Federal judge) • Thomas Penfield Jackson • Walter Bastian • Edward Tamm • William Bryant • Howard Corcoran • Edward Curran • Edward Eicher • Thomas Flannery • Oliver Gasch • Gerhard Gesell • June Green • Harold Greene • Stanley Harris • George Hart • Norma Johnson • Alexander Holtzoff • William Jones (District of Columbia) • Richmond Keech • James Kirkland • Burnita Matthews • Joseph McGarraghy • Matthew McGuire • Charles McLaughlin • John Penn • David Pine • John Pratt • George Revercomb • Charles Richey • Aubrey Robinson • Spottswood Robinson • Henry Schweinhaut • John Sirica • John Lewis Smith (United States District Court for the District of Columbia judge) • Stanley Sporkin • Joseph Waddy • Leonard Walsh • Luther Youngdahl • Barrington Daniels Parker, Sr. • Florence Pan • Robert Leon Wilkins • Ketanji Brown Jackson • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
David Kellogg Cartter • Edward Franklin Bingham • Harry Clabaugh • James Harry Covington • Walter Irving McCoy • Royce Lamberth • Thomas Hogan • Alfred Adams Wheat • Fred Dickinson Letts • Bolitha Laws • William Bryant • Edward Curran • Edward Eicher • George Hart • Norma Johnson • William Jones (District of Columbia) • Richmond Keech • Matthew McGuire • John Penn • David Pine • Aubrey Robinson • John Sirica • John Lewis Smith (United States District Court for the District of Columbia judge) • Beryl A. Howell • | ||
