The Honorable Rhonda Reid Winston

Judge Rhonda Reid Winston was appointed to the Superior Court for the District of Columbia in 1994 by President William Jefferson Clinton.

Judge Winston is a 1975 cum laude graduate of Duke University, where she was an Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholar and a recipient of a National Achievement Scholarship. Judge Winston received her law degree from Duke University School of Law in 1979 and is an Honorary Life Member of its Board of Visitors.

In 1979, Judge Winston began her legal career as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and she has extensive experience litigating criminal cases in the District of Columbia Superior Court. She spent nine years with the Public Defender Service and, during her tenure there, served as its Special Litigation Counsel and Deputy Director.

Judge Winston has also served as an assistant district attorney in the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor in New York City, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law in the Criminal Justice Clinic at Georgetown Law Center, a trial attorney in the Baltimore District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Deputy Director of the District of Columbia Pretrial Services Agency.

Judge Winston is a member of the Charlotte E. Ray Inn of Court. She has previously served as Co-Chair of the Criminal Law and Individual Rights Section of the District of Columbia Bar. She has lectured extensively on topics related to criminal law and trial advocacy. In the past, she has lectured at the District of Columbia Criminal Practice Institute, and since 1991, she has been a Visiting Faculty Member for the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School. She has also served as a faculty member at the Southeast Regional Program of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.