Biography
Judge Herbert B. Dixon, Jr. serves as a senior judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He retired in 2015 after thirty years of service. He was appointed to successive 15-year judicial terms - first by President Ronald Reagan and subsequently by President William Clinton.
While in active service with the Superior Court, Judge Dixon served as presiding judge of both the Civil Division and the Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division and as co-chair of the Strategic Planning Leadership Council for the D.C. Courts, the entity charged with writing the strategic plan for the District of Columbia Courts and evaluating progress in achieving the goals and objectives of the strategic plan. Judge Dixon served as chair of Superior Court’s Electronic Filing Pilot Project, which received national recognition for its success, and oversaw implementation of the Superior Court’s technology-enhanced courtroom project.
Judge Dixon is a former chair of both the National Conference of State Trial Judges and the ABA Standing Committee on the American Judicial System. In addition, he is the technology columnist for The Judges’ Journal magazine and senior judicial adviser to the Center for Legal and Court Technology (formerly the Courtroom 21 Project), an initiative of the Marshall-Wythe Law School at the College of William & Mary and the National Center for State Courts.
Judge Dixon is the recipient of numerous awards. Most recently, he was designated the 2019 Judicial Honoree of the Year by the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. Judge Dixon received his J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Howard University.