Nomination of James A. Belson To Be an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals
The President today announced the nomination of James A. Belson to be an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, filling the vacancy created by the retirement of Associate Judge George P. Gallagher.
James A. Belson is currently an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He was appointed on March 11, 1968, by President Johnson and reappointed on March 11, 1978, upon a rating of "exceptionally well-qualified," by the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure. Judge Belson received an A.B. degree cum laude from Georgetown University in 1953 and a J.D. from Georgetown Law Center in 1956. He also received an LL.M. from Georgetown Law Center in 1962. He served as law clerk to the Honorable E. Barrett Prettyman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, during the period 1956-57, and as an officer, Judge Advocate U.S.A., from 1957 to 1960. He was an associate and later a partner with the firm of Hogan and Hartson, Washington, D.C., from 1960 until 1968, when he was appointed to the Superior Court.
Judge Belson has served as chairman of the Court's Rules Committee since 1972 and has chaired the Court's Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure since 1970. He has served on the faculty of the National Judicial College since 1973, and he is a member of the board of directors of the American Judicature Society.
Judge Belson was born in Milwaukee, Wis., on September 23, 1931. He and his wife, Rosemary, reside in Washington, D.C.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of James A. Belson To Be an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246257