Judge Bios

Craig S. Iscoe, formerly an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice, was sworn in as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on Friday, January 9, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. in the third floor atrium of the H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse, 500 Indiana Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Rufus G. King, III presided. Associate Judge J. Ramsey Johnson administered the oath of office and former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder made remarks.

Craig S. Iscoe, formerly an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice, was sworn in as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on Friday, January 9, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. in the third floor atrium of the H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse, 500 Indiana Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Rufus G. King, III presided. Associate Judge J. Ramsey Johnson administered the oath of office and former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder made remarks.

Craig Iscoe, son of Louise and Ira Iscoe, was born and raised in Austin, Texas, where he attended the Austin public schools. In 1971, he entered the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas and graduated with High Honors in December of 1974 with a major in psychology and minor in government. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Student Senate.

In 1975, Mr. Iscoe entered Stanford Law School, where he assisted Professor Paul Brest in preparing the First Amendment supplement to his casebook and was an extern to the Mental Health Law Project in Washington. He graduated from Stanford in 1978 and began a fellowship at Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Public Representation. After earning his LL.M. from Georgetown in 1979, Mr. Iscoe joined the Federal Trade Commission, where he worked on cigarette advertising issues and then became an Assistant to the Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Advertising Practices. In 1982, Mr. Iscoe entered private practice with the law firm Arent Fox, working on communications issues and general litigation.

Mr. Iscoe left the firm at the end of 1984 to become an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, D.C., but first spent a semester as a Visiting Professor at Georgetown. At the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Iscoe tried a wide variety of criminal cases in Superior Court, such as robbery while armed, drug distribution, and homicide. He later investigated and tried various offenses in the Office’s Transnational/Major Crimes Section, including the nation’s first prosecution under the federal flag-burning statute.

From 1991-1992, Mr. Iscoe was an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt Law School, where he directed the Juvenile Law Clinic and the Trial Practice program. He then returned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. From 1992 to 1997, he handled several significant public corruption cases, including an investigation of ticketfixing at the District’s Bureau of Traffic Adjudication that led a jury to convict a Hearing Officer of accepting bribes and several others to plead guilty, and an investigation resulting in a jury convicting two officials at the District’s Department of Public and Assisted Housing of extorting bribes from people who wanted to be placed on the waiting list for Section 8 housing vouchers.

In 1997, Mr. Iscoe began a detail as Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Justice Department, handling national security, white collar, and other issues. In 2001, he returned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he led an investigation resulting in six California residents pleading guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering in connection with a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme. He has received several Special Achievement Awards from the U.S. Attorney’s Office and awards from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Metropolitan Police Department, and other law enforcement entities.

In the fall of 2002, as part of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s efforts against corporate fraud, Mr. Iscoe began a detail as Acting Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel at the SEC, where he served as co-counsel in a trial of a “Big Four” accounting firm charged with violating auditor independence regulations.

Mr. Iscoe has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown, teaching Trial Practice and Professional Responsibility, and has taught at various programs for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He has also made several presentations in Eastern Europe on behalf of the Justice Department and the American Bar Association, training judges and prosecutors in Poland, Slovakia, and Croatia in the investigation and prosecution of public corruption and corporate criminal offenses. In addition, he writes an annual summary of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Mr. Iscoe is a Master in the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court.

Mr. Iscoe is married to Rosemary Hart, who is a Senior Counsel at the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. They are the parents of two sons: David, age 17, and Mark, age 15.