JNC Recommends Candidates for Superior Court of the District of Columbia Vacancy

The District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission ("Commission") has recommended to the President the names of the three attorneys listed below for his consideration in selecting a nominee to fill the judicial vacancy on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia ("Superior Court") created by the resignation of the Honorable Maurice A. Ross. The President has sixty (60) days to select a nominee to fill this vacancy.

The Commission recommends the following candidates for the Ross vacancy:

Hon. Sherri M. Beatty-Arthur has served as a Magistrate Judge on the Superior Court since 2020. She has served in the Family Division on the Parentage and Support, Juvenile New Referrals, and Abuse and Neglect calendars. Before joining the court, she served as an Administrative Law Judge with the District of Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings, where she presided over matters in all jurisdictions, including Public Benefits, Regulatory Affairs, Rental Housing, and Unemployment Insurance.

Judge Beatty-Arthur previously served as an Attorney with the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), where she focused on civil rights and labor and employment law matters. She also served as a Partner at Arthur & Arthur, PLLC, where she represented clients in Family Law, Employment Law, and Small Business Development. Judge Beatty-Arthur served as the Board Chair and Chief Executive Officer for the Office of Employee Appeals for the District of Columbia. She also served on the executive team at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

Judge Beatty-Arthur is the former Chair of the Washington Bar Association's Judicial Council and the 2018 recipient of the Charlotte E. Ray Award from the Greater Washington Area Council of the National Bar Association for her commitment to minority women in the legal community.

Judge Beatty-Arthur received her Bachelor of Arts degree and Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her Juris Doctor from Howard University School of Law.

Fernando Campoamor-Sánchez, Esq., is an experienced trial lawyer with a distinguished career in public service and private practice, where he handled both criminal and civil matters. He currently serves as General Counsel of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association ("AOPA") and the AOPA Foundation, Inc.

Before his current role, Mr. Campoamor-Sánchez served as Counsel to the Inspector General at the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority. He also served as Litigation Counsel at the SEC, where he handled complex civil litigation matters. Mr. Campoamor-Sánchez previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, where he focused on violent crime, narcotics trafficking, and national security matters. As a prosecutor, he received the prestigious Attorney General's John Marshall Award. Further, Mr. Campoamor-Sánchez served as a Trial Attorney in the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ"), Civil Division, defending the United States from aviation tort lawsuits. Finally, he was an Associate and Special Counsel in the Litigation and White-Collar practice groups at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Campoamor-Sánchez received his Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service, cum laude, from Georgetown University and his Juris Doctor, with Honors, from Duke University School of Law.

Bernard M. Desrosiers, Esq., serves as Acting Chief of Staff at the DOJ, United States Parole Commission, where he oversees all legal and operational matters involving individuals serving federal parole-eligible sentences and those convicted under the District of Columbia Code subject to parole or supervised release. He also handles the DOJ's responsibilities under the International Prisoner Transfer Treaty Program, which facilitates the return of American citizens convicted abroad to serve their sentences in the United States and the legal conversion of those foreign sentences for enforcement under United States law.

Before joining the DOJ, Mr. Desrosiers served as an Assistant District Attorney in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he prosecuted felony offenses, including vehicular homicide, armed robbery, and murder. He also supervised district court prosecutors handling misdemeanors, domestic violence, and traffic offenses. Following his years as a prosecutor, Mr. Desrosiers was a partner at a litigation firm, specializing in white-collar criminal defense. He is the past Chair of the North Carolina Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section and was selected by the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners to draft questions and model answers for the North Carolina state-specific exam, an ancillary to the Uniform Bar Examination.

Mr. Desrosiers received his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, his Master of Arts in Trust and Investment Management, and his Juris Doctor from Campbell University in North Carolina.

Please direct any questions to the Commission's Executive Director, Tracy B. Nutall, Esq., at (202) 879-0478 or [email protected].

Members of the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission

The Honorable Marie C. Johns
PPC-Leftwich

900 7th Street, NW
Suite 700

Washington, DC 20001

(202) 434-9124

Benjamin F. Wilson, Esq.
7825 Orchid Street, NW
Washington, DC 20012

(202) 657-2534

Addy R. Schmitt, Esq.
Kropf Moseley Schmitt
1100 H Street, NW
Suite 1220

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 236-5291

Vincent H. Cohen, Jr., Esq.
Dechert LLP

1900 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006

(202) 261-3432

The Honorable Linda W. Cropp
4001 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20011

(202) 726-0505

The Honorable Tanya S. Chutkan
United States District Court

for the District of Columbia United States Courthouse

333 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001

(202) 354-3390

Margarita K. O'Donnell, Esq.
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
2100 L Street, NW

Suite 400

Washington, DC 20037

(202) 367-6702