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 1982 / Former Judge

John Terry

Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

John Terry was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982 · 44 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Yale University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Terry authored 1,053 published opinions for the court (1982–2014), plus 19 dissents and 39 concurrences. Most cited: Cobb v. Standard Drug Co., Inc. (201 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. 629 of these were attributed to Terry 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
1982	Cobb v. Standard Drug Co., Inc.	453 A.2d 110	201
1992	In Re Zilberberg	612 A.2d 832	198
1991	Adams v. George W. Cochran & Co., Inc.†	597 A.2d 28	193
2000	Paul v. Howard University†	754 A.2d 297	179
1986	In Re Reback· Dissent†	513 A.2d 226	161
1994	Colbert v. Georgetown University· Dissent†	641 A.2d 469	154
1997	Carl v. Children's Hospital· Concurrence†	702 A.2d 159	140
1987	In Re Hutchinson†	534 A.2d 919	140
1985	In Re Roundtree†	503 A.2d 1215	140
1993	Arthur Young & Co. v. Sutherland†	631 A.2d 354	134
1994	Drejza v. Vaccaro· Dissent†	650 A.2d 1308	122
1992	In Re Micheel†	610 A.2d 231	106
1989	Sorrells v. Garfinckel's, Brooks Bros., Miller & Rhoads, Inc.†	565 A.2d 285	105
1984	Meek v. Shepard†	484 A.2d 579	102
1991	McKethean v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority†	588 A.2d 708	101

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,111 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 John Terry on?: John Terry was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Sources

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44 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).