During her swearing-in earlier this month, new District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Jennifer Di Toro joined a bench that’s grown noticeably more diverse since President Barack Obama took office in 2009 — not in terms of gender or race, but in job history.
Di Toro, the former legal director of the Children’s Law Center in Washington, is one of three judges confirmed under the current administration to have worked for a nonprofit civil legal services organization. She is also among the six of Obama’s nine D.C. Superior Court nominees confirmed to date who have worked for the Public Defender Service in Washington, according to a review of judicial biographies from the court.
