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Norma Johnson

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Prior offices

United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Education

Personal


Norma Holloway Johnson (1932-present) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Johnson was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on February 28, 1980, to a seat vacated by George Hart; she was confirmed by the Senate on May 9, 1980, and received commission on May 12. She served as chief judge from 1997 until she assumed senior status on June 18, 2001. She retired on December 31, 2003.[1] Judge Johnson passed away at 79 on Sunday, September 18, 2011.[2]

Education

  • District of Columbia Teachers College, B.S., 1955
  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1962[1]

Professional career

  • Private practice, Washington, DC, 1963
  • Trial attorney, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1963-1967
  • Assistant corporation counsel, Washington, DC, 1967-1970
  • Judge, District of Columbia Superior Court, 1970-1980[1]

Footnotes

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Federal judges who have served the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
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  •  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 (Federal 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 (Federal judge)  •  Beryl A. Howell  •  

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Federal judges nominated by Jimmy Carter
1977

Ballantine • Bownes • Boyle • Bua • Carr • Clark • Cowan • Daly • Filippine • Higginbotham • Hoeveler • Hug • Johnstone • Kane • Keith • Leval • Logan • MacLaughlin • McKay • Melton • Merritt • Murphy • Nickerson • Oberdorfer • Roszkowski • Roy • Rubin • Sifton • Tang • Vance • Veron

1978

Arnold • Baker • Boyle • Burns • Campos • Claiborne • Collins • Cook • Devine • Diamond • Duplantier • Edenfield • Friedman • Gonzalez • Greene • Jenkins • Lowe • Mazzone • McMillian • O'Brien • Pfaelzer • Phillips • Pollak • Sand • Shapiro • Simmons • Smith • Sweet • Tanner • Wiseman • Ziegler

1979

Ackerman • Alarcon • Anderson • Arceneaux • Arnold • Aspen • Beatty • Beer • Belew • Bertelsman • Bilby • N. Black • S. Black • Bloch • Bowen • Brett • Brooks • Brown • Buchmeyer • Bunton • Burciaga • Cabranes • Carr • Carrigan • Castagna • Cire • Clark • Cohn • Conaboy • Cordova • Crabb • Cudahy • Davis • DeAnda • Debevoise • Edwards • Eginton • Ellison • Enslen • O. Evans • T. Evans • Farris • Ferguson • Fletcher • Frye • Garcia • Garza • B. Gibson • H. Gibson • Gierbolini-Ortiz • Giles • Gilliam • Green • Hall • Hastings • Hatchett • Hatfield • Hatter • Hawkins • Henderson • Higby • Hillman • Houck • Howard • Hudspeth • Hungate • F. Johnson • S. Johnson • N. Jones • S. Jones • Karlton • Kazen • Kearse • Keeton • Kehoe • Kennedy • Kidd • King • Kravitch • Loughlin • Martin • McCurn • McDonald • McNaught • McNichols • Mikva • Mitchell • Moran • Murnaghan • Murphy • D. Nelson • D.W. Nelson • Newblatt • Newman • Overton • Paine • Panner • J. Parker • R. Parker • Penn • Perez-Gimenez • Perry • Politz • Poole • Porter • Pregerson • Price • Rambo • Ramirez • Reavley • Redden • E. Reed • S. Reed • Reinhardt • Renner • Robinson • Rothstein • Sachs • Saffels • Sanders • Sarokin • Schroeder • Schwartz • Seay • Senter • Seymour • Shannon • Shaw • Shoob • Skopil • Sloviter • Sofaer • Spellman • Sprouse • Staker • Tate • Taylor • Thompson • Tidwell • Unthank • Vietor • Vining • Wald • Ward • Weinshienk • West • Wicker • Williams • Winder • Woods • Wright •

Zobel
1980

Aguilar • Aldrich • Anderson • Boochever • Breyer • Britt • Cahill • Canby • Carroll • Cerezo • Clemon • S. Ervin • R. Erwin • Getzendanner • Gilmore • Ginsburg • Haltom • Hardy • Henderson • Hobbs • Holschuh • Horton • Howard • Johnson • Keep • Kelly • Kenyon • Kocoras • Marquez • Marshall • Michael • Nixon • Norris • Patel • Polozola • Propst • Quackenbush • Ramsey • Rice • Shadur • Spiegel • Tashima • Thompson • Vela • White • Williams

1981

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