Quick Facts
Biography
Kimberley Sherri Knowles is a former Magistrate Judge and current Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Education and career
Knowles earned her Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1992, and her J.D. from Howard University School of Law in 1996.
After law school, Knowles clerked for then D.C. Superior Court judge Eric T. Washington. She then went on to work in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia. In 2004, she became the Deputy Chief of the office’s Sex Offense/Domestic Violence Section.
D.C. Superior Court
On May 10, 2010, Superior Court of the District of Columbia chief judge Lee F. Satterfield appointed Knowles as a magistrate judge on the court.
President Barack Obama nominated Knowles on June 11, 2012, to a 15-year term as an associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by Zinora M. Mitchell. On July 20, 2012, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on her nomination. On August 2, 2012, the Committee reported her nomination favorably to the senate floor and later that day, the full Senate confirmed her nomination by voice vote. She was sworn in on November 9, 2012.
Personal life
Knowles was born and raised in Bronx, New York. She moved to Washington D.C. to attend law school and has remained there since. She is the adoptive parent of one son.