Craig Iscoe

After serving as an Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for more than 22 years, Craig took senior judicial status in January 2026 in order to teach full-time at Georgetown University Law Center as Distinguished Visitor from the Judiciary. As a Judge, he has presided over hundreds of criminal and civil jury and non-jury trials, as well as trials and other matters in the Court’s Family, Probate, and Domestic Violence divisions. From 2022 - 2025, Craig was Presiding Judge of the Superior Court’s Mental Health Community Court and its Drug Court.

Before taking the bench, Craig held a variety of litigation and other legal and teaching positions. For four years, he served as Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Justice Department, focusing on national security and white-collar criminal issues. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia for many years, first prosecuting street crimes, and later prosecuting fraud, public corruption, and national security cases. Immediately after graduating from Stanford Law School, Craig completed a fellowship in Public Interest Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as a Visiting Professor in 1986.  He has also worked for a public interest organization and as a civil litigation associate at a large DC law firm.

Craig has been a member of the American Law Institute since 2013, and has worked on the ALI’s Model Penal Code for Sex Offenses, its Principles of Policing project, and is now an Adviser on the ALI’s project on High-Volume Civil Litigation. Craig earned his J.D. from Stanford, an LL.M. from Georgetown, and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Texas.