Quick Facts
Biography
Danya Ariel Dayson is an Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Education and career
Dayson earned her Bachelor of Arts from Appalachian State University and her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.
After graduating, she clerked for D.C. Superior Court judge Robert E. Morin. She then worked in private practice.
D.C. Superior Court
President Barack Obama nominated Dayson on July 11, 2011, to a 15-year term as an associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by Stephanie Duncan-Peters. On November 8, 2011, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on her nomination and on the following day, November 9, 2011, the Committee reported her nomination favorably to the senate floor. On November 18, 2011, the full Senate confirmed her nomination by voice vote. She was sworn in on April 27, 2012.
Personal life
Dayson was born in New York City, raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and has lived in Washington, D.C. since 1994. She's married to Michael Murphy and has one daughter.