The Honorable Jeanette Clark

Judge Jeanette Jackson Clark was appointed to the District of Columbia Superior Court in 2002 by President George W. Bush.

Judge Clark was born and raised in Washington, DC where she graduated from McKinley High School. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Trinity College, Washington, D.C. in 1970, a Master of Science in Education from Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1972, and a law degree, cum laude, from Howard University School of Law School in 1983.

Upon graduation from law school, Judge Clark served as a law clerk to the Honorable Warren R. King of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. After her clerkship, Judge Clark was an Associate with the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson until 1986. She then began her tenure with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”). While at WMATA, Judge Clark practiced in the civil litigation and general law sections of the Office of the General Counsel and served as Special Assistant to a WMATA General Manager for two and one-half years. Judge Clark served as Deputy General Counsel of the District of Columbia Housing Authority for eighteen months between 1996 and 1997 and afterwards returned to WMATA before her appointment to the bench.

Judge Clark’s appointments include serving as a Committee member and later Chair of a Hearing Committee of the Board on Professional Responsibility and as a member of the Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law. She also served on the Board of Trustees of Trinity College, Washington, D.C. for six years.

During her tenure at the court, Judge Clark has served on several court committees: Buildings & Grounds, Civil Rules, Selection and Tenure of Magistrate Judges, Family Law Implementation Committee and co-chair of Family Law Subcommittee, and the Security Committee.

Also, Judge Clark has been engaged in several American Bar Association activities: National Conference of State Trial Judges Executive Committee, Co-chair of the NCSTJ Children and Family Law Committee, the Professional and Ethics Committee of the Judicial Division, the Standing Committee on Diversity in the Judiciary, and the Judicial Clerkship program.