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 2012 / Active

Roy W. McLeese III

Associate Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Roy W. McLeese III is an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McLeese authored 98 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 5 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Wright v. Howard University (83 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. 122 of these were attributed to McLeese 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
2013	Wright v. Howard University†	60 A.3d 749	83
2013	Abdelrhman v. Ackerman· Concurrence†	76 A.3d 883	67
2015	Jamel Evans v. United States†	122 A.3d 876	54
2013	Ortberg v. Goldman Sachs Group· Concurrence†	64 A.3d 158	47
2013	Parker v. K & L Gates, LLP†	76 A.3d 859	38
2015	Mathis v. District of Columbia Housing Authority· Concurrence†	124 A.3d 1089	32
2013	Woods v. District of Columbia†	63 A.3d 551	31
2014	Robert Grimes v. District of Columbia Business Decisions Information, Inc., Welton Williams†	89 A.3d 107	28
2015	Terrence Melvin Koonce v. District of Columbia· Concurrence†	111 A.3d 1009	25
2014	Chase Plaza Condominium Association, Inc. and Darcy, LLC v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.†	98 A.3d 166	24
2014	Ward v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.†	89 A.3d 115	23
2016	UNITED STATES v. DAVID D. LEWIS†	147 A.3d 236	21
2013	In re K.M.†	75 A.3d 224	21
2012	District of Columbia Office of Tax & Revenue v. Bae System Enterprise System Inc.†	56 A.3d 477	21
2017	Tyrone Wade v. United States†	173 A.3d 87	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 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 is Roy W. McLeese III on?: Roy W. McLeese III is an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

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14 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).