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 1975 / Served to 2001

Julia Mack

Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Julia Mack was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1920 · age 106
Tenure: 1975–2001 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mack authored 637 published opinions for the court (1975–2001), plus 79 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: Curry v. United States (212 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. 282 of these were attributed to Mack 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
1987	Curry v. United States	520 A.2d 255	212
1981	United States v. Edwards· Dissent†	430 A.2d 1321	205
1979	Morrison v. MacNamara	407 A.2d 555	160
1997	Carl v. Children's Hospital· Concurrence†	702 A.2d 159	140
1978	Monroe v. United States	389 A.2d 811	120
1984	Ehrenhaft v. Malcolm Price, Inc.	483 A.2d 1192	118
1980	Dyson v. United States	418 A.2d 127	116
1976	Arnold v. United States· Concurrence†	358 A.2d 335	112
1985	Allen v. United States· Dissent†	495 A.2d 1145	110
1980	Lacy v. District of Columbia	424 A.2d 317	109
1989	Sorrells v. Garfinckel's, Brooks Bros., Miller & Rhoads, Inc.· Concurrence†	565 A.2d 285	105
1985	Giles v. Shell Oil Corp.†	487 A.2d 610	97
1978	Mendes v. Johnson†	389 A.2d 781	93
1982	Matter of James	452 A.2d 163	92
1984	District of Columbia v. Freeman	477 A.2d 713	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 759 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 Julia Mack on?: Julia Mack was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Sources

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26 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).