The Honorable Craig Iscoe

Judge Craig Iscoe was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 2003 by President George W. Bush.

Judge Iscoe was born and raised in Austin, Texas, where he attended the Austin public schools. He graduated with High Honors from the University of Texas in December of 1974 with a major in psychology and minor in government. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Student Senate. He received his law degree from Stanford Law School in 1978 and Master of Laws from Georgetown in 1979.

Following law school, Judge Iscoe began a fellowship at Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Public Representation. Judge Iscoe later joined the Federal Trade Commission, where he worked on cigarette advertising issues and then became an Assistant to the Director of the FTC's Bureau of Advertising Practices. In 1982, Judge Iscoe joined the law firm Arent Fox, working on communications issues and general litigation.

Judge Iscoe became an Assistant United States Attorney in 1984 after a semester as a Visiting Professor at Georgetown. At the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he tried a wide variety of criminal cases in Superior Court, such as robbery while armed, drug distribution, and homicide. He later investigated and tried various offenses in the Office's Transnational/Major Crimes Section, including the nation’s first prosecution under the federal flag-burning statute.

Judge Iscoe served as an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt Law School for a year, directing the Juvenile Law Clinic and the Trial Practice program. He then returned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office where he handled several significant public corruption cases. In 1997, Judge Iscoe began a detail as Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Justice Department, handling national security, white collar, and other issues. In 2001, he returned to the U.S. Attorney's Office, where he led an investigation resulting in six California residents pleading guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering in connection with a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme.

Judge Iscoe has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown, teaching Trial Practice and Professional Responsibility, and has taught at various programs for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He has also made several presentations in Eastern Europe on behalf of the Justice Department and the American Bar Association, training judges and prosecutors in Poland, Slovakia, and Croatia in the investigation and prosecution of public corruption and corporate criminal offenses. In addition, he writes an annual summary of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Judge Iscoe is a Master in the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court.

Judge Iscoe is married to Rosemary Hart, who is a Senior Counsel at the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. They are the parents of two sons.