Elizabeth Carroll Wingo (born 1970) is an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Education and career

Wingo earned her

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from

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in 1992 and her

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from

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in 1997. After law school, she worked as an associate in Washington office of

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. From 1998 to 1999, she clerked for Judge

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of the

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. From 1999 to 2004, she was an

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at the United States Attorney's Office in the

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. From 2004 to 2006, she served as chief of the criminal section in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, and in 2006, she served as the assistant deputy attorney general for Public Safety.

D.C. superior court

On August 18, 2006, Chief Judge

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appointed Wingo as a magistrate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. On November 30, 2015, President

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nominated Wingo to a 15-year term as an associate judge on the same court. On March 2, 2016, the

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held a hearing on her nomination. On April 25, 2016, the Committee reported her nomination favorably to the senate floor. On June 23, 2016, the

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confirmed her nomination by

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Personal life

Wingo is married to Harry Wingo and they have two daughters Alexandra and Natalie.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wingo, Elizabeth Carroll 1970 births Living people 20th-century American women lawyers 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American judges 21st-century American women lawyers 21st-century American lawyers 21st-century American women judges Assistant United States Attorneys Dartmouth College alumni Harvard Law School alumni Judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Lawyers from Washington, D.C.