Judge Bush was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and attended public schools there. She is

daughter of the late John Edward Bush, III and Alice Saville Bush. Judge Bush graduated

with honors from Wellesley in 1976, received a Waddell Fellowship and spent a summer in

Ghana to research her honors thesis in History. Judge Bush received her law degree from

Harvard Law School in 1979.

Immediately after law school, Judge Bush moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as

a law clerk to the Honorable James F. Merow on the United States Court of Federal

Claims. The following year she was a law clerk to the late Honorable Phillip N. Nichols on

the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In 1981 she joined the Office of

General Counsel of the Washington Gas Light Company as a rate lawyer. As a rate

lawyer, she represented the Company in rate proceedings before the District of Columbia

and Maryland Public Service Commissions and the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission for nearly three years.

In 1984 she joined the Office of General Counsel of the Potomac Electric Power

Company. During her seven years with PEPCO, she was promoted from Associate

Counsel to Assistant General Counsel to Associate General Counsel.

After ten years of litigation, Judge Bush was appointed by Mayor Sharon Pratt kelly,

and confirmed by the District of Columbia Council, as an Administrative Judge of the Board

of Contract Appeals for the District of Columbia. Later she was appointed and confirmed as

the Chief Administrative Judge. During her nearly three-year tenure as Chief Judge of the

Board of Contract Appeals, the backlog for bid protests was eliminated and the delay in

resolving contract disputes was greatly reduced.

Judge Bush has been active in bar activities and in community service in the District

of Columbia. She was formerly a tutor for Project Northstar, the Homeless Children’s

Tutorial Project. She is a longstanding member of the National Association of Black Women

Attorneys (NABWA) and has been a member of its Board of Governors. Judge Bush has

served as co-chair for the Executive Endorsements Committee of the Women’s Bar

Association (WBA) and the Greater Washington Area Chapter of the National Bar

Association’s Women Lawyer’s Division (GWAC). She has also been an active member

of the WBA and GWAC community outreach committees and has worked on the Boarder

Baby’s Project for WBA and has been a GWAC big sister for a group of female students

at Malcolm X Elementary School. Judge Bush has also been active in the Wellesley

College Alumnae Association and has served as the Association’s Mid-Atlantic Regional

Representative for Career Services. Prior to her appointment to Superior Court, Judge

Bush served as a pro bono mediator for three years in the Court’s Multi-Door Dispute

Resolution Division.

Judge Bush is the proud mother of Lena Ursaline Bush, who is three years old.