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 2006 / Active

Anna Blackburne-Rigsby

Chief Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Anna Blackburne-Rigsby is a Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Duke University
Howard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Blackburne-Rigsby authored 92 published opinions for the court (2007–2026), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: HAVILAH REAL PROPERTY SERVICES, LLC v. VLK, LLC (59 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. 93 of these were attributed to Blackburne-Rigsby 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
2015	HAVILAH REAL PROPERTY SERVICES, LLC v. VLK, LLC†	108 A.3d 334	59
2015	ARTHUR G. NEWMYER v. THE SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL and JAMES F. HUNTINGTON†	128 A.3d 1023	38
2008	In Re Jacoby†	945 A.2d 1193	33
2011	Presley v. Commercial Moving & Rigging, Inc.†	25 A.3d 873	32
2011	Heath v. United States· Dissent†	26 A.3d 266	32
2014	Jose A. Aguilar v. RP MRP Washington Harbour, LLC†	98 A.3d 979	29
2014	Greenpeace, Inc. v. The Dow Chemical Company†	97 A.3d 1053	29
2008	Psaromatis v. English Holdings I, L.L.C.†	944 A.2d 472	25
2010	MODERN MANAGEMENT CO. v. Wilson†	997 A.2d 37	24
2007	Caglioti v. District Hospital Partners, LP†	933 A.2d 800	24
2015	Stephen M. Sullivan v. AboveNet Communications, Inc.†	112 A.3d 347	21
2014	Roosevelt Whitfield v. United States†	99 A.3d 650	21
2009	Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. Barksdale-Showell†	965 A.2d 16	20
2010	Bailey v. United States†	10 A.3d 637	19
2009	Mitchell v. United States†	985 A.2d 1125	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 95 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 is Anna Blackburne-Rigsby on?: Anna Blackburne-Rigsby is a Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

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20 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).