WASHINGTON,
DC - Today, President Obama nominated Steven Nathan Berk and Judge
Elizabeth Carroll Wingo to serve on the Superior Court of the District
of Columbia.
“I am pleased to nominate Mr. Berk and Judge Wingo to serve on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia,” said President Obama. “I am confident they will serve
the District of Columbia with integrity and a steadfast commitment to justice.”
Steven Nathan Berk: Nominee for the Superior Court for the District of Columbia
Steven
Nathan Berk is a principal and founder of Berk Law, where he litigates
consumer protection issues on behalf of consumers and represents
whistleblowers in cases under
the False Claims Act. Prior to starting his own practice, Berk was a
partner at several Washington, D.C. law firms including Chavez &
Gertler LLP (2007 – 2009), Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP (2005 –
2007), and Jenner & Block LLP (1996 – 2002). In addition,
from 2002 to 2004, Berk served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer
of iHappen Interactive, a social networking platform. He served as an
Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney’s Office
for the District of Columbia from 1990 to
1995, and he worked as staff attorney in the Office of the General
Counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1989 to 1990.
From 1987 to 1989, Berk was an associate in the Chicago office of Jenner
& Block LLP. Berk began his career as an associate
at Isham, Lincoln & Beale, then a law firm in Chicago, Illinois.
He received his J.D.
cum laude from Boston College Law School in 1985, his M.Sc. from
the London School of Economics in 1982, and his A.B. with honors from
Washington University in St. Louis in 1981.
Judge Elizabeth Carroll Wingo: Nominee for the Superior Court for the District of Columbia
Judge
Elizabeth Carroll Wingo has served as a Magistrate Judge on the
Superior Court for the District of Columbia since 2006. From 2004 to
2006, she served as Chief of the
Criminal Section in the Office of the Attorney General for the District
of Columbia, and in 2006, she served as the Assistant Deputy Attorney
General for Public Safety. Before joining the Office of the Attorney
General, from 1999 to 2004, Judge Wingo served
as an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney’s
Office for the District of Columbia. From 1998 to 1999, she served as a
law clerk to the Honorable T.S. Ellis, III of the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Judge Wingo began her career as an associate in the Washington, D.C.
office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. She received her J.D. from Yale
Law School in 1997 and her A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1992.
Source: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
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