Hon. Neal E. Kravitz has served as a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia since 1998. He has extensive experience in all of the court’s major divisions and has written dozens of published trial court opinions addressing novel issues of family, civil, and criminal law. Judge Kravitz also has sat by designation in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on fifteen occasions and has authored thirteen published opinions on behalf of that court. He is the Chair of the Language Access Advisory Committee, the Chair of the Superior Court Rules Committee, and a member of the Standing Committee on Fairness and Access to the District of Columbia Courts.

Before joining the bench, Judge Kravitz worked for fifteen years as a civil rights lawyer, public defender, and Senate staffer. He held positions with the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, the New Hampshire Public Defender, and the Senate POW/MIA and Whitewater Committees.

Judge Kravitz is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Henry A. Politz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.