The DC Superior Court Board of Judges has given Chief Judge Lee F. Satterfield approval to appoint Adrienne Noti as a magistrate judge.  She is expected to begin work on October 6.  

    
Ms. Noti received a Bachelor of Arts degree in women’s studies and political science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.  Following law school she clerked for the Honorable Carol Bagley Amon, US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. 

Ms. Noti has practiced family law for ten years.  She served as Managing Attorney for Family Law for the DC Bar Pro Bono Program, coordinating the Advocacy and Justice Clinic.  In addition, Ms. Noti served as Director of the Women and the Law Clinic at American University’s Washington College of Law, where she supervised the representation of clients in family law cases in DC Superior Court, including child support, domestic violence, custody and visitation, and abuse and neglect cases.

In her most immediately previous role, Ms. Noti served as Special Advisor to the Director of the Office of Child Support Enforcement within the US Department of Health and Human Services, where she developed and implemented federal child-support policy and lead child-support initiatives.