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 2005 / Served to 2011

Noel A. Kramer

Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Noel A. Kramer was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2011 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Vassar College

Judicial Record

In our data, Kramer authored 135 published opinions for the court (2005–2011), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Scales v. District of Columbia (67 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. 87 of these were attributed to Kramer 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
2009	Scales v. District of Columbia†	973 A.2d 722	67
2007	Johnson v. District of Columbia	935 A.2d 1113	51
2006	Crawford v. District of Columbia	891 A.2d 216	50
2007	Lively v. Flexible Packaging Ass'n†	930 A.2d 984	48
2008	Pearson v. Soo Chung†	961 A.2d 1067	41
2006	Marquez v. United States†	903 A.2d 815	25
2009	Gomez v. Independence Management of Delaware, Inc.	967 A.2d 1276	23
2008	Ivey v. District of Columbia†	949 A.2d 607	23
2005	United States v. Jenkins	887 A.2d 1013	23
2011	Graham v. United States†	12 A.3d 1159	21
2010	District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department v. Fraternal Order of Police/Metropolitan Police Department Labor Committee	997 A.2d 65	21
2011	Gay v. United States	12 A.3d 643	20
2009	Grayson v. AT & T CORP.	980 A.2d 1137	20
2007	Oliver v. Mustafa†	929 A.2d 873	20
2009	Lancaster v. United States	975 A.2d 168	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 137 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 Noel A. Kramer on?: Noel A. Kramer was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).