Harold Cushenberry attended elementary schools in Henderson, North Carolina,

and received his secondary education at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut.

Thereafter he attended Harvard College, graduating with honors in 1972, majoring in

economics and political science. After obtaining his J.D. from the Georgetown University

Law Center in May 1975, Mr. Cushenberry worked at the Federal Trade Commission from

September 1975 until April 1977. Joining the United States Attorney’s Office in 1977, he

served in the misdemeanor trial section, the District Court grand jury section, the appellate

division, and the felony trial division, including a two-year period in the court’s felony one

division. As a supervisor in the United States Attorney’s Office, Harold Cushenberry has

served as Deputy Chief of the Felony Trial Division, Deputy Director of Superior Court

Operations, and currently serves as the Executive Assistant United States Attorney for the

District of Columbia. For the last two years, he has also taught criminal procedure as an

adjunct professor at Howard University Law School.

Mr. Cushenberry is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, American Bar

Association, Washington Bar Association, United States Attorney’s Association and the

Black Assistants United States Attorney’s Association.

Harold Cushenberry and his wife, Elizabeth H. Noel, Deputy People’s Counsel for

the District of Columbia, reside in the District of Columbia with their two children, Erica Noel

Cushenberry, age 5, and Catherine Elizabeth Cushenberry, age six months.