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 1985 / Active

John M. Steadman

Senior Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

John M. Steadman is a Senior Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, serving since 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1985 · 41 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Steadman authored 270 published opinions for the court (1986–2018), plus 27 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Rivas v. United States (215 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. 329 of these were attributed to Steadman 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
2001	Rivas v. United States· Concurrence†	783 A.2d 125	215
1992	In Re Zilberberg· Dissent†	612 A.2d 832	198
2003	District of Columbia v. Chinn†	839 A.2d 701	177
1997	In Re Delaney†	697 A.2d 1212	170
2003	In Re Zdravkovich†	831 A.2d 964	160
1990	Comber v. United States†	584 A.2d 26	149
1997	Carl v. Children's Hospital· Dissent†	702 A.2d 159	140
1991	Peay v. United States†	597 A.2d 1318	128
1990	Roundtree v. United States†	581 A.2d 315	117
1995	Jack Baker, Inc. v. Office Space Development Corp.†	664 A.2d 1236	103
1991	Byrd v. United States†	598 A.2d 386	92
1997	Clark v. District of Columbia†	708 A.2d 632	91
1998	Daka, Inc. v. Breiner· Concurrence†	711 A.2d 86	89
1990	Beckman v. Farmer· Concurrence†	579 A.2d 618	83
1987	Turner v. District of Columbia· Concurrence†	532 A.2d 662	80

Showing the 15 most-cited of 329 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 John M. Steadman on?: John M. Steadman is a Senior Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Sources

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41 years on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).