The Honorable Michael O’Keefe

Michael Kenny O’Keefe was nominated by President Barack Obama to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on March 19, 2013. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 23, 2013.

Judge O’Keefe attended the University of Notre Dame, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. After college, Mr. O’Keefe settled in Washington, D.C. and worked in the United States Senate. While working in the Senate, Mr. O’Keefe attended American University’s Washington College of Law, where he was an associate editor of the American University Law Review.

Judge O’Keefe began his legal career in the Washington office of O’Connor & Hannan (now Nossaman LLP). In 1998, he started his solo practice handling criminal, family, and civil cases. As a practitioner, Judge O’Keefe handled thousands of cases in D.C. Superior Court, litigating more than two hundred trials in Family Court and the Criminal, Civil and Probate Divisions. In addition to his legal practice, Judge O’Keefe previously served as the President of the Family Court Trial Lawyers Association and was an adjunct professor at University of Baltimore School of Law.

Judge O’Keefe currently serves as the Deputy Presiding Judge of the Probate and Tax Division. Judge O’Keefe previously spent 6 years in the Criminal Division on the Felony 1 and Felony 2 trial calendars, three years presiding over domestic relations calendars in the Family Court, and two and a half years presiding over a civil trial calendar.