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{{Short description|American judge (born 1961)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Robert A. Salerno
|image        = Robert A. Salerno.jpg
|office1      = Associate Judge of the [[Superior Court of the District of Columbia]]
|president1   = [[Barack Obama]]
|term_start1  = March 11, 2016
|term_end1    =
|succeeding1  =
|predecessor1 = Robert Isaac Richter
|successor1   =
|birth_name   = Robert Alan Salerno
|birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1961|09|14}}<ref name="Questionnaire">{{Cite web |date=December 3, 2015 |title=Questionnaire for Nominees to the District of Columbia Courts |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114shrg98987/pdf/CHRG-114shrg98987.pdf |access-date=June 15, 2021 |publisher=United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs |page=75}}</ref>
|birth_place  = [[Newark, New Jersey]], U.S.
|death_place  =
|party        =
|spouse       = Juanita
|relations    =
|children     = 2
|education    = [[Brown University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of Virginia School of Law|University of Virginia]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
|awards       =
}}
'''Robert Alan Salerno''' (born September 14, 1961) is an associate judge of the [[Superior Court of the District of Columbia]].<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dccourts.gov/sites/default/files/2017-03/DCSC_Bio_Salerno.pdf |title=Bio |last=|first=|date=|website=www.dccourts.gov|language=en|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref>
== Education and career ==
Born in [[Newark, New Jersey]], Salerno graduated from [[Seton Hall Preparatory School]] in 1979.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/gov.gpo.fdsys.CHRG-114shrg98987 Nominations Of Hon. Carol Waller Pope, Robert A. Salerno And Darlene M. Soltys - Hearing Before The Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs United States Senate One Hundred Fourteenth Congress], [[United States Senate]] [[Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs]], December 3, 2015. Accessed November 28, 2019. "Seton Hall Preparatory School; 1975 to 1979; High School Diploma, 1979."</ref>
Salerno earned his [[Bachelor of Arts]] from [[Brown University]], in 1983, and [[Juris Doctor]] from the [[University of Virginia School of Law]] in 1990.<ref name="White House">{{Cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/29/president-obama-announces-intent-nominate-robert-salerno-serve-superior- |title=President Obama Announces Intent to Nominate Robert A. Salerno to Serve on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia |last=|first=|date=September 29, 2014|website=[[White House]]|language=en|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref>
After graduating law school, Salerno worked in various law firms in [[Washington, D.C.]]
=== D.C. superior court ===
On September 29, 2014, President [[Barack Obama]] nominated Salerno to a 15-year term as an associate judge of the [[Superior Court of the District of Columbia]] to the seat vacated by Judge Robert Isaac Richter.<ref name="Congress">{{Cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/114th-congress/424 |title=PN424 — Robert A. Salerno — The Judiciary |last=|first=|date=December 17, 2015|website=[[United States Congress]]|language=en|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> On December 3, 2015, the [[United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs|Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs]] held a hearing on his nomination. On December 17, 2015, the Committee reported his nomination favorably to the senate floor and later that day, the [[United States Senate|Senate]] confirmed his nomination by [[voice vote]].<ref name="Congress" /> He was sworn in on March 11, 2016.<ref name="Bio" />
==Personal life==
Salerno has been a resident of [[Washington D.C.]] since 1990 and lives there with his wife Juanita. They have two children.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Prepared%20Statement-Salerno-2015-12-03.pdf |title=Opening Statement of Robert A. Salerno |last=|first=|date=December 3, 2015|website=[[United States Congress]]|language=en|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:1961 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:21st-century American judges]]
[[Category:Brown University alumni]]
[[Category:Judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia]]
[[Category:Lawyers from Newark, New Jersey]]
[[Category:Lawyers from Washington, D.C.]]
[[Category:Seton Hall Preparatory School alumni]]
[[Category:University of Virginia School of Law alumni]]