WASHINGTON,
DC - Today, President Obama nominated Judge Rainey Ransom Brandt to
serve on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
“I
am pleased to nominate Judge Rainey Ransom Brandt to serve on the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia,” said President Obama. “I am
confident she will serve the District of Columbia with integrity and a
steadfast commitment to justice.”
Judge
Rainey Ransom Brandt has served as a Magistrate Judge in the Criminal
Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia since 2013,
where she is currently the trial team leader for her calendar
assignment. Prior to her transfer into the Criminal Division, Judge
Brandt served as a Magistrate Judge in the Domestic Violence Division in
2012.
From 1998 to 2012, Judge Brandt was Special Counsel to the Chief
Judge of the Superior Court, where she served as ombudsman to the
justice community for prisoner/correctional issues, held leadership
roles on committees addressing access to justice, and provided judicial
training sessions. Prior to her tenure with the Superior Court, Judge
Brandt taught as a full-time professor in the Department of Justice, Law
and Criminology at American University, where she remains an Adjunct
Associate Professor teaching courses related to criminal justice.
She
began her legal career serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael
L. Rankin and later to the Honorable Stephanie Duncan-Peters, both of
the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Judge Brandt received
her J.D. from Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law in
1995 and her B.A. from American University in 1989. She also received
her M.S. in Justice and Ph.D. in Sociology from American University in
1990 and 1993, respectively.
Source: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
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