Hon. Robert Okun is an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, where he has served a judge since June 2013. He served in the Civil Division of the Court from June 2013 through December 2015, in the Family Court since January 2016 through December 2018, and in the Criminal Division since January 2019.

Prior to becoming a judge, Judge Okun served for almost twenty years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where he tried cases in both Superior Court and the U.S. District Court for the District of the Columbia, and argued appeals in both the D.C. Court of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Judge Okun also served as an attorney in the Office of Consumer Litigation of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he prosecuted civil and criminal violations of various consumer protection statutes, and in the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he prosecuted fraud committed against the federal government. In addition, Judge Okun was an attorney advisor at the Federal Trade Commission, where he oversaw investigations and litigation concerning false and deceptive trade practices.

Finally, Judge Okun has taught classes on white-collar crime and legal reasoning at both The Washington College of Law and The American University, and he has taught classes on civic responsibility to fifth-grade students at several District of Columbia public schools.

Judge Okun graduated from Harvard Law School in 1984 and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981.