Superior Court of the District of Columbia Nomination of Iraline Barnes To Be an Associate Judge.

The President today announced that he will nominate Iraline Barnes as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Ms. Barnes, 32, is a graduate of Howard University and the University of Michigan Law School. She would replace Judge W. Byron Sorrell, who retired in August.

Following law school, Ms. Barnes served as a law clerk for Superior Court Judge Eugene Hamilton. She then worked as a trial attorney for the Civil Division of the Justice Department and as an assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia. Since June 1978 she has served as an Administrative Judge for the Board of Surface Mining and Reclamation Appeals at the Department of the Interior.