Daytimers with Hon. Russell F. Canan & Hon. Richard A. Levie (Ret.)

The Art (Not Science) of Judging: Deciding Cases of Life and Death
Hon. Russell F. Canan & Hon. Richard A. Levie (Ret.), Guest Speakers

Join the Temple Sinai DayTimers on Monday, September 14th, to learn more about how the local and national judicial systems work and decide difficult cases with two distinguished local judges.

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Judge Russell F. Canan was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1993 by President Clinton. Currently, Judge Canan is a Senior Judge on the Court. He has served in all divisions of the Court—Criminal, Civil, Family, and Probate. He was also the Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division. He is the former Chair of the Committee on Wrongful Convictions, the Judicial Education Committee, the Jury Management Committee, and the Committee on the Selection and Tenure of Magistrate Judges.

The Honorable Richard A. Levie was nominated by President Reagan and confirmed by the Senate to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1985. He sat on the Superior Court and, by designation, as a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Richard was the presiding Judge of the Civil Division and Multi-Door Dispute Resolution (ADR) Division. Since April 2000, Richard has been a full-time private arbitrator, mediator, case evaluator and special master and has also sat as a Senior Judge at Superior Court. Richard served twice on the Temple Sinai board covering 17 years and is a past president.