District of Columbia Code
Title 11 - Organization and Jurisdiction of the Courts. [Enacted title]
Chapter 15 - Judges of the District of Columbia Courts

Subchapter I - Appointment; Qualifications; Service of Judges

§ 11–1501. Appointment and qualifications of judges - (a) The President of the United States shall nominate, and...

§ 11–1502. Tenure - Subject to mandatory retirement at age 74 and to the...

§ 11–1503. Designation of Chief Judge - (a) The chief judge of a District of Columbia court...

§ 11–1504. Services of retired judges - (a)(1) A judge, retired for reasons other than disability, who...

§ 11–1505. Vacations - (a) Each judge of the District of Columbia courts shall...

Subchapter II - The District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure

§ 11–1521. Establishment of Commission - There shall be a District of Columbia Commission on Judicial...

§ 11–1522. Membership - (a) The Commission shall consist of five members appointed as...

§ 11–1523. Terms of office; vacancy; continuation of service by a member - (a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the term of...

§ 11–1524. Compensation - Members of the Tenure Commission shall serve without compensation for...

§ 11–1525. Operations; personnel; administrative services - (a) The Commission may make such rules and regulations for...

§ 11–1526. Removal; involuntary retirement; proceedings - (a)(1) A judge of a District of Columbia court shall...

§ 11–1527. Procedures - (a)(1) On its own initiative, or upon complaint or report...

§ 11–1528. Privilege; confidentiality - (a)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the filing of papers with,...

§ 11–1529. Judicial review - (a) A judge aggrieved by an order of removal or...

§ 11–1530. Financial statements - (a) Pursuant to such rules as the Commission shall promulgate,...

Subchapter III - Retirement

§ 11–1561. Definitions - For purposes of this subchapter — (1) The term “judge”...

§ 11–1562. Eligibility for retirement - (a) A judge is eligible for retirement under this subchapter...

§ 11–1563. Withholding of retirement payments; lump-sum credit - (a) There shall be deducted and withheld from the basic...

§ 11–1564. Computation of retirement salary; election to credit other service - (a) The retirement salary of a judge who retires pursuant...

§ 11–1565. Service by retired judges - Any retired judge performing judicial duties as a senior judge...

§ 11–1566. Survivor annuity; election; relinquishment - (a) Any judge, whether or not subject to sections 11-1562...

§ 11–1567. Survivor annuity; payments to fund - (a) There shall be deducted and withheld from the salary...

§ 11–1568. Survivor annuity; entitlement; computation - (a) The service of a judge for the purpose of...

§ 11–1568.01. Opportunity to revoke a previous survivor annuity election - (1)(A) Any individual who, before the date of the enactment...

§ 11–1568.02. Additional opportunity to make a survivor annuity election - (1) Any individual who, on or before the date of...

§ 11–1568.03. Period for exercise of right to revoke or elect - The right to revoke an election under subsection (d) or...

§ 11–1569. Survivor annuity; payment; order of precedence - (a) Survivor annuities shall accrue monthly and shall be due...

§ 11–1570. The District of Columbia Judicial Retirement and Survivors Annuity Fund - (a) There is established in the Treasury a fund known...

§ 11–1571. Periodic increases; existing rights - (a) The retirement salary of any judge, or the annuity...

§ 11–1572. Regulations; effect on Reform Act - (a) The Secretary is authorized to issue regulations to implement,...