How do judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is presidential appointment.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals / Joined 1983 / Former Judge

A F. Burgess Jr.

Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

A F. Burgess Jr. was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983 · 43 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Burgess authored 4 published opinions for the court (1986–2005). Most cited: Jones v. United States (50 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 1 of these was attributed to Burgess by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1986	Jones v. United States	516 A.2d 513	50
1987	Donnelly Associates, Ltd. Partnership v. District of Columbia Historic Preservation Review Board	520 A.2d 270	26
1986	Joyner v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services	502 A.2d 1027	25
2005	Nuyen v. Luna†	884 A.2d 650	18

Showing the 4 most-cited of 4 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is presidential appointment.
Which court was A F. Burgess Jr. on?: A F. Burgess Jr. was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

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43 years on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).