Joyce Hens Green

Federal judicial service On March 6, 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated Green to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to a seat vacated by Judge Howard Francis Corcoran. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 10, 1979, and received her commission on May 11, 1979. She assumed senior status on July 1, 1995, and was succeeded by Henry H. Kennedy Jr., who had also succeeded her on the Superior Court bench. Green was a member of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) from May 1988 until May 1995, and served as its presiding judge from May 1990 until May 1995.

Personal life and death She married Samuel Green in 1965 and had two sons and a daughter.