Jeanette Jackson Clark, formerly Associate General Counsel in the office of the

General Counsel at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”), will

be sworn in as the newest Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of

Columbia on Friday, April 5, 2002 at 4:30 p.m. in the third floor atrium of the H. Carl

Moultrie I Courthouse, 500 Indiana Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Superior Court Chief

Judge Rufus G. King, III will preside. Senior Judge Warren R. King of the D.C. Court of

Appeals will administer the oath of office.

Ms. Clark, age 54, was born and reared in Washington, D.C. where she graduated

from McKinley High School. She received her B.A. degree in History from Trinity College,

Washington, D.C. in 1970, an M.S.Ed. from Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts, in

1972, and a J.D., cum laude, from Howard University Law School in 1983.

Upon graduation from law school, Ms. Clark served as a judicial law clerk to the

Honorable Warren R. King when he was a judge at the Superior Court of the District of

Columbia. After her clerkship, Ms. Clark was an Associate with the law firm of Steptoe &

Johnson in the litigation and corporate law departments until 1986. She began her almost

fourteen and one-half year tenure with the WMATA in 1986. While at WMATA, Ms. Clark

practiced law in the Civil Litigation and General Law sections of the Office of the General

Counsel and for two and one-half years served as Special Assistant to a WMATA General

Manager. Ms. Clark served as Deputy General Counsel of the District of Columbia

Housing Authority from 1996-1997 for eighteen months and afterwards returned to

WMATA. During her legal career, Ms. Clark has defended and tried numerous complex

civil litigation cases in the Superior Court and the U.S. District Court for the District of

Columbia. Her law practice areas primarily included employment and labor law, personal

injury, government contracts, and real estate transactions.

Ms. Clark’s appointments include serving as a Committee member and later Chair

of a Hearing Committee of the Board on Professional Responsibility and as a member of

the Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law. She also served on the Board of

Trustees of Trinity College, Washington, D.C. for six years.