The Honorable Adrienne J. Noti

Judge Adrienne Jennings Noti was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on September 20, 2021. Her nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 7, 2024. Prior to this appointment, Judge Noti served as a Magistrate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia since October 6, 2014.

Judge Noti was born and raised in Washington, DC, and is a graduate of D.C. public schools. Judge Noti received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her law degree magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center.

After graduating from Georgetown, Judge Noti clerked for the Honorable Carol Bagley Amon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Noti then began her career in public interest law and family law. Following a fellowship at the Center for Reproductive Rights, she worked as a Staff Attorney at the Safe Horizon Domestic Violence Law Project, representing clients in protection order, child custody, visitation, and neglect proceedings in New York Family Courts.

From 2002 – 2010, Judge Noti was a clinical law professor, first at Rutgers School of Law – Newark, where she led the Women’s Rights Litigation Clinic and coordinated a pro bono project program that provided legal information to pro se litigants. Then, Judge Noti served as a Practitioner-in-Residence at American University’s Washington College of Law in the Women and the Law Clinic. She supervised student attorneys representing clients in child custody, child support, divorce, domestic violence, disability, and immigration matters, including in DC Superior Court.

Judge Noti specialized in improving access to justice for parents and pro se litigants. In 2010, Judge Noti joined the DC Bar Pro Bono Program where she was the lead Managing Attorney for family law and coordinated the Advocacy and Justice Clinic. Prior to her appointment as a Magistrate Judge, Judge Noti worked at the Office of Child Support Enforcement, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she developed and implemented federal child support policy, advised senior policymakers on child support enforcement, and conducted trainings for judges, attorneys and child support professionals nationwide.

In her nearly 10 years of service as a Magistrate Judge, Judge Noti has presided over matters in the Family Court and Domestic Violence, Criminal, Civil, and Probate Divisions. Additionally, she served as the Presiding Judge of the Family Treatment Court, an intensive drug treatment court for select parents involved in the child abuse and neglect system. During her tenure, Judge Noti led judicial training sessions and served on various committees, including the Criminal Justice Act Panel Committee, Committee on Strategic Planning Leadership Council, Judicial Education Committee, and Family Court Training Committee.

Judge Noti has taught at American University’s Washington College of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and in the Women’s Studies Department at Rutgers University and at the New York University School of Social Work.