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 1991 / Served to 1998

Warren King

Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Warren King was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–1998 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Judicial Record

In our data, King authored 228 published opinions for the court (1991–2012), plus 7 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Johnson v. United States (210 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. 131 of these were attributed to King 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
1996	Johnson v. United States· Concurrence†	683 A.2d 1087	210
1995	Jonathan Woodner Co. v. Breeden†	665 A.2d 929	116
1995	District of Columbia v. Coleman	667 A.2d 811	107
1994	Howard University v. Green†	652 A.2d 41	106
1997	Schiff v. American Ass'n of Retired Persons†	697 A.2d 1193	82
1994	Simard v. Resolution Trust Corp.	639 A.2d 540	63
1998	East v. Graphic Arts Industry Joint Pension Trust	718 A.2d 153	62
1997	District of Columbia v. Walker	689 A.2d 40	62
1997	Holder v. District of Columbia	700 A.2d 738	58
1996	McNeil Pharmaceutical v. Hawkins	686 A.2d 567	57
1996	Carter v. United States· Concurrence†	684 A.2d 331	56
1994	Benefits Communication Corp. v. Klieforth†	642 A.2d 1299	56
1995	Messina v. District of Columbia†	663 A.2d 535	55
1995	In re T.J.†	666 A.2d 1	48
1993	Turner v. United States	622 A.2d 667	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 250 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 Warren King on?: Warren King was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Sources

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7 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).