The Hon. Gregory E. Mize (Ret.) is a senior judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He was nominated to the bench by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. Mize retired on March 12, 2002, assuming senior status.
Prior to his nomination, he was general counsel for the District of Columbia City Council since 1983. Before that, Mize served as staff director and counsel for the District of Columbia City Council (1975 to 1983).
He received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Loyola University Chicago and an S.T.B. from Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary. Mize then completed a J.D. at Georgetown Law School in 1973.
Following his retirement, he founded MizeADR in 2002 and has devoted his time to serving as a judicial fellow at the National Center for State Courts. As such, Mize works with the Center for Jury Studies and has led special projects for the Conference of Chief Justices, including serving as the Reporter to the CCJ Committee on Civil Justice Improvements and as principal staff to the Working Group on Foreign Lawyers and the International Practice of Law. Mize has also acted as the Conference’s principal monitor of United States Congress proposals that implicate federalism principles.
In 2009, he served as a judicial ethics and codification expert in the USAID Project to Strengthen the Independence of the Judiciary and Citizen Access to Justice in Lebanon. Mize was also a consultant to a United States Justice Department project in support of the Republic of Georgia’s efforts to implement jury trials within its criminal justice system.
He went on to assist the National Center for State Courts’ Judicial Reform and Government Accountability Project in Belgrade, Serbia, and led teams of American jurists to help establish training programs for judges in Jamaica and other Eastern Caribbean islands.
In addition, Mize has taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School and served as a special advisor to the BIC International Trade in Legal Services Committee of the International Bar Association.