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 1969 / Served to 1987

Frank Q. Nebeker

Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Frank Q. Nebeker was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1969–1987 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Nebeker authored 1,050 published opinions for the court (1969–2011), plus 32 dissents and 37 concurrences. Most cited: Watts v. United States (398 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. 296 of these were attributed to Nebeker 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
1976	Watts v. United States	362 A.2d 706	398
1981	United States v. Edwards· Concurrence†	430 A.2d 1321	205
1979	Ibn-Tamas v. United States· Dissent†	407 A.2d 626	186
1977	Bennett v. Kiggins†	377 A.2d 57	157
1979	Matter of Colson	412 A.2d 1160	136
1976	Bethea v. United States	365 A.2d 64	131
1981	Warren v. District of Columbia†	444 A.2d 1	130
1986	Bussineau v. President of Georgetown College· Dissent†	518 A.2d 423	129
1974	Winters v. United States	317 A.2d 530	119
1987	In Re Kersey	520 A.2d 321	118
1976	Arnold v. United States· Concurrence†	358 A.2d 335	112
1981	Howard v. Riggs National Bank	432 A.2d 701	108
1983	Toliver v. United States	468 A.2d 958	107
1985	Derrington v. United States	488 A.2d 1314	104
1975	1901 Wyoming Avenue Cooperative Ass'n v. Lee	345 A.2d 456	104

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,122 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 Frank Q. Nebeker on?: Frank Q. Nebeker 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).