The Hon. Natalia M. Combs Greene (Ret.) is a senior associate judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Combs Greene was appointed to the bench by former President Bill Clinton in 1998. She assumed senior status on September 30, 2013.
Prior to her appointment, Combs Greene was special counsel to Wilma Lewis, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Before that, she spent time as assistant director of training (1994 to 1996) and director of training (1996 to 1998) at the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
Combs Greene earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1976. She then completed a J.D. at Howard University School of Law in 1979.
She is licensed to practice in the District of Columbia (1980), California (1988), the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1987), the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1980).
After graduating from law school, Combs Greene began her legal career as an attorney in the General Counsel’s Office of the Federal Trade Commission. She served in that capacity until 1981, at which time she joined the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. During her tenure there, she handled appellate, misdemeanor, grand jury, and felony matters.
Then, in 1987, Combs Greene relocated to San Francisco. She entered into private practice at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin. She spent the next six years with the firm, handling commercial civil litigation before returning to Washington, D.C., as senior counsel to the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.
Combs Greene was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where she attended Los Angeles High School.