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Biography
Patricia A. Broderick is an Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Education and career
Broderick earned her Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College, her Masters Degree from George Washington University and her Juris Doctor from Columbus School of Law in 1981.
After graduating, she served as a law clerk for Henry F. Greene on the D.C. Superior Court.
D.C. Superior Court
On February 11, 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated Broderick to a fifteen-year term as an associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by Harriett Rosen Taylor. On September 3, 1998, the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs held a hearing on her nomination. On September 24, 1998, the Committee reported her nomination favorably to the senate floor. On October 28, 1998, the full Senate confirmed her nomination by voice vote.
On August 30, 2013, the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure recommended that President Obama reappoint her to second fifteen-year term as a judge on the D.C. Superior Court.