WHAT: Investiture of Robert E. Morin as the 7th Chief Judge of DC Superior Court and Recognition of Outgoing Chief Judge Lee F. Satterfield 

WHERE: Moultrie Courthouse, 500 Indiana Ave, NW Third Floor Atrium 

WHEN: Friday, October 7, 2016, 3:00 PM 

Biography: Judge Robert E. Morin was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1996. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts and received his law degree from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law. 

After graduating from law school in 1977, Judge Morin joined the law firm of Furey, Doolan & Abell, where he focused primarily on civil and criminal litigation. In 1980, he accepted a position as a Clinical Supervisor in the Criminal Division of the DC Law Students in Court Program in Washington, DC In 1982, Judge Morin assisted in establishing and worked at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. The Center was established to provide representation of indigent persons charged in capital cases or under a sentence of death, and to train lawyers to provide such representation. In 1984, Judge Morin returned to the Washington metropolitan area and accepted a position with the Office of the Public Defender for the State of Maryland to undertake representation of defendants in the lead death penalty cases in that state. 

From 1986 until his investiture in 1996, Judge Morin was a partner in the law firm of Fisher, Morin & Hansen, located in Washington, DC where he specialized in the area of the defense of serious criminal and death penalty cases. In addition, since 1986, Judge Morin has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown Law Center, teaching Evidence. 

Since joining the Court, Judge Morin has served on a variety of committees, including the Criminal Justice Act and Family Court Panel Committees, the CJA Plan Implementation Committee, the Criminal Rules Advisory Committee, the Superior Court Rules Committee, and the Information Technology Steering Committee. He has served in the Criminal Division, Civil Divisions and Family Court. From 2010 through the end of 2015, he served as Deputy Presiding Judge and then Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division.