Associate Judge John Fisher of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals has handled many significant prosecutions, including Dan Rostenkowski and Jonathan Pollard. When he was Chief Judge, he stressed the idea of "preventive appellate advocacy" - appellate lawyers advising trial lawyers to avoid issues on appeal.

The Society is very pleased to announce that Margaret (Margie) Gaines has joined the Society as its new Executive Director. Ms. Gaines was an attorney with the NLRB Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Branch from 1983 until her retirement in 2017, and served as Deputy Assistant General Counsel and Settlement Director from 2005 to 2017. Margie is well known to the Circuit, having served as a volunteer mediator in the Circuit Mediation Program since 2013. We are confident that Margie will be a superb Executive Director for the Society in the years to come.

In his engrossing and insightful oral history, journalist Carl Stern describes his decades-long career covering the D.C. Courts including such cases as Watergate and the Branch Davidian crisis. Read Stern's compelling oral history, taken by skilled oral historian, Judy Feigin.