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 1999 / Active

Stephen H. Glickman

Senior Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Stephen H. Glickman is a Senior Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Glickman authored 398 published opinions for the court (1999–2019), plus 15 dissents and 20 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. 304 of these were attributed to Glickman 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†	783 A.2d 125	215
2006	Thomas v. United States†	914 A.2d 1	152
2003	District Cablevision Limited Partnership v. Bassin†	828 A.2d 714	110
2008	Comford v. United States†	947 A.2d 1181	100
2005	In Re Cater†	887 A.2d 1	94
2007	Blodgett v. University Club	930 A.2d 210	74
2012	JAIYEOLA v. District of Columbia†	40 A.3d 356	73
2002	Heard v. Johnson	810 A.2d 871	73
2000	Clayborne v. United States†	751 A.2d 956	70
2001	Davis v. Moore†	772 A.2d 204	68
2007	Moore v. United States†	927 A.2d 1040	65
2001	Wagner v. Georgetown University Medical Center	768 A.2d 546	65
2013	Young v. United States†	63 A.3d 1033	63
2009	Solers, Inc. v. Doe	977 A.2d 941	62
2005	Smith v. District of Columbia· Concurrence†	882 A.2d 778	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 434 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 Stephen H. Glickman on?: Stephen H. Glickman is a Senior Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Sources

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27 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).