The Honorable Stephen H. Glickman

Judge Stephen H. Glickman was appointed to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in 1999 by President William Jefferson Clinton.

Judge Glickman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Cornell University and Yale Law School. He came to Washington, D.C. in 1974 after serving as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Connecticut and a seminar instructor at Yale University.

Judge Glickman worked at the Federal Trade Commission in the Bureau of Competition and later at the District of Columbia Public Defender Service (PDS), where he represented indigent defendants in criminal trials and appeals. Judge Glickman left PDS in 1980 to join the Washington, D.C. law firm of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP. During the next two decades, his practice at the firm encompassed a wide range of civil and criminal litigation in both the federal and state courts. He also served as Zuckerman Spaeder’s Managing Partner from 1991 to 1998. Judge Glickman left the firm in 1999 to begin his service as an Associate Judge on the Court of Appeals. Judge Glickman transitioned to Senior Judge status in 2022.  Among his judicial duties, Judge Glickman served for a number of years on the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration of the District of Columbia Courts, and he continues to chair the Courts’ Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct.