JNC Recommends Six Candidates for Superior Court Vacancies

March 14, 2025

The District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission has recommended to President Trump six candidates for judicial vacancies on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia created by the retirement of Judges Anthony C. Epstein and Alfred S. Irving Jr. The president has 60 days to select a nominee to fill each vacancy.

The candidates are Elizabeth “Liz” Aloi, assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia; Brian W. Amy Jr., attorney advisor in the Civil Division of D.C. Superior Court; Sharon E. Goodie, administrative law judge for the District of Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings; Edward A. O’Connell, chief of staff and deputy general counsel to the inspector general for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; Elana S. Suttenberg, special counsel for policy and legislative affairs at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia; and James “Tony” Towns, a senior assistant attorney general with the Public Advocacy Division at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia.

Learn more about the candidates here.