Kendra D. Briggs

Briggs received her Associate of Arts from Florida A&M University and her Bachelor of Science from Florida State University in 1996 and her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law in 2002.[1]

Briggs served as a law clerk to Justice Peggy A. Quince of the Florida Supreme Court.[2] From 2002 to 2006, she was a senior associate at Parks & Crump, LLC, a Florida-based law firm, from 2006 to 2008, she served as an Associate General Counsel for the Florida Department of Transportation. From 2008 to 2010, Briggs was an attorney in private practice at Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP in Washington, D.C. Since 2010, she has served an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia; where she serves as a Senior Assistant United States Attorney in the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section, where she is responsible for prosecuting civil rights offenses.[1] Briggs also previously served as the 5th District Community Prosecutor.[2]

On November 3, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Briggs to serve as a Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. President Biden nominated Briggs to the seat vacated by Judge Judith Bartnoff, whose term expired on September 13, 2019.[3] Her nomination is pending before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.