Commissioner Queen is originally from Albany, New York where she graduated

from Philip Schulyer High School. Following high school she attended Howard University in

Washington, D.C. where she received a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1968 and her Juris

Doctor in 1975. She was admitted to the practice of law by examination in New York, and in

1977 was admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia.

Upon graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree from Howard University, she

was briefly employed as a school teacher in the District of Columbia Public Schools and as

a Park Ranger with the United States Park service. Commissioner Queen had an extended

period of employment with the National Institutes of Health, from 1969 to 1975, where she

worked in the Division of Personnel Management as a Personnel Management Specialists.

In 1975, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, National Institutes of Health,

National Cancer Program honored Commissioner Queen with a Special Achievement

Award for her specialized recruitment and placement efforts with the National Cancer

Program. Additionally, Commissioner Queen was cited in the 1975 edition of Outstanding

Young Women of America. Commissioner Queen worked at the National Institutes of

Health throughout the course of her legal education.

Upon graduation from law school, she accepted a position with the Metropolitan Life

Insurance Company in New York City, where she served on the Policy Litigation Staff of

the Law Department from 1975-1976. In January 1977, she accepted a position as an

Attorney-Advisor for the Maritime Administration of the Department of Commerce, serving

in the Ship Financing Section of the General Counsel’s Office. Following her service with the

Maritime Administration, she was appointed in 1979 as an Assistant United States

Attorney for the District of Columbia where she served until 1982. During her tenure as an

Assistant United States Attorney, she was honored with a Special Achievement Award in

1981.

Commissioner Queen was appointed by the late Chief Judge H. Carl Moultrie, I to

serve as a Commissioner in November 1982 and is the first Commissioner to be named

as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

She is a member of the American Bar Association, Assistant United States

Attorney’s Association, Black Assistant United States Attorney’s Association, D.C. Bar

Association, Howard University Alumni Associations, National Bar Association and

Washington Bar Association.

Commissioner Queen is married to Charles A. Queen, of Washington, D.C., and

they have two children.