Neal E. Kravitz has been a judge in 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. He also has sat by designation in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on ten occasions since 2004 and has written eight published opinions on behalf of that court. He is the Chair of the Language Access Advisory Committee and a member of the Standing Committee on Fairness and Access to the District of Columbia Courts, the Superior Court Rules Committee, and the Landlord-Tenant Rules Advisory Subcommittee.

Before joining the bench, Judge Kravitz worked for fifteen years as a civil rights lawyer, public defender, and Senate staffer, holding positions with 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. He is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School and a former law clerk to Judge Henry A. Politz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.