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Charles James Willoughby Jr. is an American lawyer who is a nominee to serve as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Willoughby is a native of Washington, D.C. [2] He received a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College in 2000, a Bachelor of Arts from Belmont University in 2002 and a Juris Doctor from Howard University School of Law in 2007. [3]
From 2009 to 2013, Willoughby was an assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the United States Virgin Islands Department of Justice. From 2013 to 2014, he was an associate attorney at Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A. Since 2014, he has served as an assistant United States attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia; being appointed a deputy chief in the Major Crimes Section of the Superior Court division in 2023. [3] He also practiced criminal and civil law at a firm in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. [2]
In March 2023, Willoughby was one of three people recommended by the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Judge John M. Campbell. [4] On June 28, 2023, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Willoughby to serve as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. [3] On July 11, 2023, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Willoughby to the seat vacated by Judge William M. Jackson, who retired on March 31, 2022. [5] His nomination is pending before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
In 2021, he received the AUSA Association's Patricia J. Smoot Award. [2]
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