U.S. District Senior Judge Ricardo Urbina is set to retire in March, after serving on the federal bench since 1994.

Urbina, who also served as a District of Columbia Superior Court judge from 1981 to 1994, is hailed as a pioneer of the city’s Hispanic bar — he was the first Hispanic judge on the D.C. Superior Court and is the first and only Hispanic judge on U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.