Hon. Heide L. Herrmann was appointed Magistrate Judge by Chief Judge Robert E. Morin in January 2017. She currently serves in the Criminal and Domestic Violence Divisions of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, handling both criminal and civil matters.

Judge Herrmann has worked in the private and public sectors, first as an Associate with Hahn Loeser & Parks, in Cleveland, Ohio.  In 2000, Judge Herrmann moved to the District of Columbia and began working for the United States Department of Justice, where she stayed for sixteen years. Judge Herrmann has served as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Division’s Commercial Litigation Branch, the Environment and Natural Resources Division’s Natural Resources Section, and the Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch. From 2008 through 2014, Judge Herrmann served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where she prosecuted sex offenses and domestic violence crimes in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Judge Herrmann earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in environmental geology and English, cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University, and her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Case Western Reserve School of Law.  Judge Herrmann previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Solomon Oliver, Jr., in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.