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 2000 / Served to 2006

Anna Blackburne Rigsby

Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Anna Blackburne Rigsby was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2006 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rigsby authored 40 published opinions for the court (2006–2012). Most cited: Hill v. Medlantic Health Care Group (47 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2007	Hill v. Medlantic Health Care Group	933 A.2d 314	47
2009	Barrett v. Covington & Burling LLP	979 A.2d 1239	29
2006	Wilson v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority	912 A.2d 1186	24
2009	Smith v. United States	984 A.2d 196	21
2011	Payne v. Clark	25 A.3d 918	17
2010	Strauss v. Newmarket Global Consulting Group, LLC	5 A.3d 1027	17
2008	Linen v. Lanford	945 A.2d 1173	13
2009	In Re Cole	967 A.2d 1264	12
2012	In Re Howes	39 A.3d 1	11
2010	In Re Edwards	990 A.2d 501	11
2012	Capitol Hill Restoration Society v. District of Columbia Mayor's Agent for Historic Preservation	44 A.3d 271	10
2011	Jahr v. District of Columbia Office of Employee Appeals	19 A.3d 334	8
2011	Flores v. United States	37 A.3d 866	7
2010	Wilson v. Craig	987 A.2d 1160	7
2011	Sandwick v. District of Columbia	21 A.3d 997	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 40 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 Anna Blackburne Rigsby on?: Anna Blackburne Rigsby was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

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6 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).