The District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission (“Commission”) has forwarded to President George W. Bush the names of three lawyers for his consideration in selecting a nominee to fill a judicial vacancy on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The President has sixty (60) days to select a nominee to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Associate Judge Mary A. Gooden Terrell.
The Commission recommends the following three candidates to fill the vacancy:
Alfred S. Irving, Jr., age 48, was appointed as a Magistrate Judge on
the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, on July 23, 2007.
Prior to his appointment to the Bench, Mr. Irving served for
approximately 14 years as a trial attorney with the US Department
of Justice, initially, from 1993 to 1998, in the Commercial
Litigation Branch of the Civil Division, next, from 1998 to 2001, in
the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section of the Criminal
Division, and finally, from 2001 to 2007, in the Environmental
Enforcement Section of the Environment and Natural Resources
Division. Prior to his federal government service, Mr. Irving was an
associate attorney with two law firms, first with the international
law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, and later with Newman &
Holtzinger, P.C. Mr. Irving has been an active member of the DC
Bar, having served as a member of the Litigation Section’s Steering
Committee and for a short time as its Co-Chair. Mr. Irving received
his J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1987, and
his B.A. degree in 1981 from Wake Forest University.
Richard S. Love, age 58, is a Senior Assistant Attorney General
in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia,
an office he joined in 1981. In his current position with the Office
of the Solicitor General, Mr. Love prepares and argues appeals of
civil and administrative cases brought by and against the District of
Columbia. Mr. Love has extensive litigation experience having
supervised two Civil Division sections, the Equity and Correctional
Litigation Section, in addition to his tenure as a trial assistant in
both the Civil and Criminal Divisions. He has also served as Senior
Counsel to then Corporation Counsel John M. Ferren, and earlier in
his career, as Special Assistant to then Corporation Counsel, Charles
F.C. Ruff. Mr. Love was the 2004 recipient of the District of
Columbia Bar, Beatrice Rosenberg award for excellence in government
service. He received his law degree from the Antioch School of Law
in 1980 and his undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State
University in 1972.
Vytas V. Vergeer, age 43, is the Legal Clinic Director at Bread for
the City, a non-profit agency serving Washington, DC's poor. In
this capacity, he oversees provision of free legal services in the
areas of landlord/tenant, family, and public benefits law. He first
joined Bread for the City as a staff attorney in 1994, becoming Legal
Clinic Director in 1999, guiding the clinic from having two attorneys
to its current staff of eleven. From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Vergeer
served as Director of Government Relations for the National Housing
Law Project, before returning to Bread for the City. His DC Bar
activities include Chairing the Real Estate, Housing and Land Use
Section for two years and being an appointed member of the
Landlord/Tenant Implementation Task Force. Mr. Vergeer received his
law degree from Catholic University, the Columbus School of Law in
1993 and B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Maryland in 1987.
He served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable John Ferren on the
DC Court of Appeals.
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