For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 4, 2002
Nomination
President Bush to Nominate Rigsby to Serve as An Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate
Robert R. Rigsby to serve as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court
of the District of Columbia. Rigsby has served as
Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia since February 2000
and has served in the Office of Corporation Counsel since
1992. Before being named Corporation Counsel, his previous
assignments included Deputy Corporation Counsel and Chief of the
Enforcement Division, and Deputy Corporation Counsel and Chief of the
Criminal Division. As a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army
Reserves, he serves in the Judge Advocate General's
Corps. Rigsby's military service includes active duty in the
Army Trial Defense Service, as a Prosecutor for the 101st Airborne
Division, as a Legal Advisor to the Multinational Force and Observers
in the Sinai, Egypt, 101st Airborne Division; and as Chief of U.S.
Magistrate Court Prosecutions in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky.
Rigsby is a graduate of San Jose State University and the University of
California at San Francisco Law School.
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