Nominated by Barack Obama Preceded by Inez Smith Reid | Spouse(s) Brent J. Futrell Name Corinne Beckwith | |
Alma mater Kalamazoo College, (B.A.)
University of Illinois, (M.A.)
University of Michigan (J.D) Education University of Michigan, Kalamazoo College | ||
Corinne Ann Beckwith (born April 3, 1963) is an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest appellate court for the District of Columbia. She spent her legal career as a public defender before being nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Beckwith grew up in Michigan, where she attended public schools in Grand Rapids and received a B.A. with honors in English from Kalamazoo College in 1985. She was the first person in her family to graduate from college. After college, Beckwith went into journalism, earning an M.A. from the University of Illinois in 1987 and working as a reporter for the Midland Daily News. In 1989, she entered law school at the University of Michigan. She served as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review and graduated with a J.D. in 1992. She then clerked for Judge Richard Cudahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court before embarking on a career in appellate public defense in Michigan and then, beginning in 1999, at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.