The Honorable Herbert B., Jr. Dixon

Judge Herbert B. Dixon, Jr. retired from the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 2015 after thirty years of service. He was appointed to successive 15-year terms - first by President Ronald Reagan and subsequently by President William Clinton.

Judge Dixon is a former member of the ABA Board of Governors, the House of Delegates, and the Techshow Planning Board. He is a former chair of both the National Conference of State Trial Judges and the ABA Standing Committee on the American Judicial System. Judge Dixon serves on the ABA Journal Board of Editors, The Judges’ Journal Editorial Board, and is chair the Judicial Division Book Editorial Board.

While in active service with the Superior Court, Judge Dixon served as presiding judge of both the Civil Division and the Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division of Superior Court and as co-chair of the Strategic Planning Leadership Council for the D.C. Courts, the entity charged with writing the strategic plan for the District of Columbia Courts and evaluating progress in achieving the goals and objectives of the plan. In addition, he served as chair of Superior Court’s Electronic Filing Pilot Project, which received national recognition for its success, and oversaw implementation of the Superior Court’s technology-enhanced courtroom project.

Judge Dixon is the technology columnist for The Judges’ Journal magazine and senior judicial adviser to the Center for Legal and Court Technology (formerly the Courtroom 21 Project), an initiative of the Marshall-Wythe Law School at the College of William & Mary and the National Center for State Courts.

Judge Dixon has received numerous awards, including the ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Pursuit of Justice Award, for lawyers and judges who have shown outstanding merit and who excel in providing access to justice for all; the William R. McMahon Award by the National Conference of Specialized Court Judges, for leadership in the field of technology in the courts; and introduction into the Washington Bar Association’s Hall of Fame. Most recently, Judge Dixon was named the 2019 Judicial Honoree of the Year by the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

Judge Dixon received his J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Howard University. He is married to Phoebe Boykins Dixon. They have two adult children, both of whom are Ph.D. engineers.