Judge King was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, in 1937, and he lived in the District

until he was ten. He attended elementary school in the District and secondary school in St.

Mary’s County, Maryland. He received a B.A.E. (Aeronautidcal Engineering) degree from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1960, a J.D. degree from American University in 1967,

and a master of law degree from Yale Law SChool in 1969. He was admitted to the Bar of

the District of Columbia in February 1968.

He served in the United States Navy from 1960-1963. assigned to Destroyers in

the Atlantic Fleet. In 1967 and 1968 he was on active duty with the Naval Investigative

Service in DaNang, Republic of Viet-Nam.

Judge King returned to the District in 1969, where he has since resided. He joined

the United States Attorney’s Office in the District that year, serving first in the Appellate

Division and then the Court of of General Services Division. With court reorganization in

January 1971, he was assigned as a trial attorney in the felony trial section in the Superior

Court Division of the United States Attorney’s Office. In February 1972 he became Chief

of the Grand Jury/Intake Section and from November 1973 until May 1975, he was the

Deputy Chief of the Superior Court Division. For approximately one year of that period he

served as Acting Chief of the Division while the Chief of the Division was engaged in the

prosecution of a major criminal case.

He left the United States Attorney’s Office in May 1975, to accept a position as a

member of the faculty at the Antioch School of Law. While at Antioch he directed an

Appellate Clinic and served as a the head of the Criminal Division Clinic. During that period,

he also maintained an active caseload in the Juvenile Brance and the Civil Branch of the

Superior Court. Judge King also taught courses in criminal procedure, criminal and juvenile

justice planning, trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, and legal method.

In 1977, he joined the Office for Improvements in the Administration of Justice in the

Department of Justice. While in that office, he took part in various research and legislative

projects dealing with civil discovery abuse, court annexed arbitration, federal court

jurisdiction, the award of attorney fees in civil litigation, and the effectiveness of the Speedy

Trial Act. He co-authored a proposal relating to civil discovery with Professor Maurice

Rosenberg that was published in the Brigham Young University Law Review in 1981,

which was substantially adopted in the 1983 amendments to Rule 26 of the Federal Rules

of Civil Procedure. He served as a staff member for both the National Commission of the

Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures in 1979, and the Attorney General’s Task Force

on Violent Crime in 1981.

Judge King has been a member of the Judicial Conference of the District of

Columbia since 1978. He served as a member of a Hearing Committee of the District of

Columbia Board of Professional Responsibility from 1978 to 1981. He is married to Joyce

Hanahan Deroy of Avalon, Pennsylvania, and is the father of four children, Anne born in

1979 and triplets Daniel, Terin, and Jennifer born in 1981.