The Hon. Zoe A. Bush (Ret.) is a senior associate judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Bush was nominated to the bench by former President Bill Clinton in 1994. She assumed senior status on October 27, 2017.
Prior to her appointment, Bush was an administrative law judge for the District of Columbia Contract Appeals Board, a position to which she was named in 1984. Before that, she spent time in the Office of General Counsel at the Potomac Electric Power Company.
Bush earned a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College in 1976. She then completed a J.D. at Harvard Law School in 1979.
After graduating from law school, Bush began her legal career as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. James F. Merow of the United States Court of Claims and the Hon. Philip Nichols, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She served in that capacity until 1981, at which time she became a rate attorney for the Washington Gas Light Company.
Her memberships have included the Charlotte E. Ray American Inn of Court, the National Association of Black Women Attorneys, the National Bar Association, and the Judicial Council of the Washington Bar Association.
She is a recipient of the Commissioner’s Award from the United States Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families.
Bush was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has one daughter.