José M. López (judge)

José M. López (born May 29, 1949)[1] is a former associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.[2][3]

José M. López
López in 2009
Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
In office
1990 – December 31, 2021
PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush
Succeeded byErrol Rajesh Arthur
Personal details
Born (1949-05-29) May 29, 1949
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
EducationMiddlebury College (BA)
Suffolk University (JD)

Education and career

López earned his Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College in 1973, and his Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School in 1977.[3]

D.C. Superior Court

President George H. W. Bush nominated López on April 19, 1990, to a fifteen-year term as an associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. On July 20, 1990, the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs held a hearing on his nomination. On August 2, 1990, the Committee reported his nomination favorably to the senate floor. On August 4, 1990, the full United States Senate confirmed his nomination by unanimous consent.[4] He retired from the court on December 31, 2021.[5]

Personal life

López was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

References
  1. Affairs, United States Congress Senate Committee on Governmental (July 20, 1990). Nominations for Superior Court of the District of Columbia: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, on Nominations of Mary Ellen Abrecht, Kaye K. Christian, Frederick D. Dorsey, Ellen Segal Huvelle, Jose M. Lopez, Joan Z. McAvoy, Gregory E. Mize, Patricia Q. Wynn, John Henry Bayly, Jr., Linda Turner Hamilton, and Stephen G. Milliken, to be Associate Judges ... U.S. Government Printing Office.
  2. "District of Columbia Superior Court Judges". www.dccourts.gov. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
  3. "Honorable José M. López". www.dccourts.gov. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  4. "PN1181-5 - Nomination of Jose M. Lopez for The Judiciary, 101st Congress (1989-1990)". www.congress.gov. 1990-08-04. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  5. "Notice of Judicial Vacancies on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia". jnc.dc.gov. Retrieved 2021-11-03.


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