Todd E. Edelman

Professional career

• At PDS, Judge Edelman tried dozens of cases to judges and juries and began serving as lead counsel in cases on the Superior Court’s Felony 1 calendars in 2000.
• In 2005, Judge Edelman became Of Counsel at the firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C. In private practice, he focused his work on complex civil litigation in federal and state courts nationwide.
• He was promoted to Chief of the PDS Serious Felony Section in 2002 and became the agency’s Training Director in 2004; in the latter position, he designed and conducted an intensive trial skills training program for new staff attorneys and directed professional education training programs for all staff attorneys.
• As a clinical professor, he taught classes on criminal law and procedure, evidence, and trial practice in the Criminal Justice Clinic, and supervised students and post-graduate Fellows on criminal cases in Superior Court.
• Judge Edelman currently teaches Torts and Constitutional Law at Georgetown as an Adjunct Professor of Law, and in 2022 was awarded the Charles Fahy Distinguished Adjunct Professor Award.
• Immediately after his clerkship, he was awarded an E. Barrett Fellowship at the Georgetown University Law Center and spent two years as a Prettyman Fellow in Georgetown’s Criminal Justice Clinic.
• Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Edelman served on the Board of Directors of the Washington Council of Lawyers and was twice elected by his peers to the Steering Committee of the D.C. Bar’s Criminal Law and Individual Rights Section.
• From 1997 to 2005, Judge Edelman was a trial attorney at the Public Defender Service (PDS) for the District of Columbia.
• Judge Edelman taught Criminal Trial Practice as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law from 2004 to 2008 and taught full time at Georgetown as a clinical professor from 2008 to 2010.

Judicial service

• Todd E. Edelman was nominated by President Barack Obama to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 2010.
• He served as the Presiding Judge of the Civil Division in 2023-24 and as the Deputy Presiding Judge in 2021-22.
• Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 22, 2010.

Education

• Yale College · B.A., 1990
• New York University (NYU) School of Law · Law degree, 1994
• New York University School of Law

Personal record

Born 1968 · St. Louis