The Honorable John Campbell

Judge John M. Campbell was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1998 by President William Jefferson Clinton.

Judge Campbell was born in Wooster, Ohio and spent most of his childhood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University. After college, he was awarded a teaching fellowship with the Yale-China Association as an English instructor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he spent two years. In 1981, Judge Campbell received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal.

Following graduation from law school, Judge Campbell worked as a law clerk to the Honorable Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 1982, he joined the District of Columbia firm of Arnold & Porter as an associate. Following two years of practice, he entered public service, joining the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice in 1985 as a trial attorney. Over the next seven years, Judge Campbell handled numerous criminal investigations, trials, and appeals in locations throughout the country, including Virginia, Rhode Island, Florida, West Virginia, New York, Tennessee, Indiana, Louisiana, and the District of Columbia. In 1991, Judge Campbell joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia as the Chief of the Public Corruption and Government Fraud Section, where he served until his appointment to the Superior Court bench. In that capacity, he supervised all public corruption and fraud investigations and prosecutions in the District involving both federal and local officials.

Judge Campbell is married and has one daughter.