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 2008 / Former Judge

Anthony C. Epstein

Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Anthony C. Epstein was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Epstein authored 1 published opinion for the court (2011–2015), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Potomac Development Corp. v. District of Columbia (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. 2 of these were attributed to Epstein 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
2011	Potomac Development Corp. v. District of Columbia†	28 A.3d 531	50
2015	IN RE S.W.· Concurrence†	124 A.3d 89	6

Showing the 2 most-cited of 2 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 Anthony C. Epstein on?: Anthony C. Epstein was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 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).