Stuart G. Nash

Stuart Gordon Nash (born May 1965) (known professionally as Stuart Nash) is an attorney in private practice and a former Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. On June 15, 2026, President Trump nominated Nash to a 15-year term as an associate judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Early life and education Nash was born in May 1965, in New York City, New York. At a young age his family moved to Glen Rock, New Jersey, where he attended the public schools and graduated from Glen Rock High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in 1987 from Duke University and a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, in 1991 from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Samuel James Ervin III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for Judge T. S. Ellis III of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Career Nash was an attorney at the law firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. for three and a half years, where he specialized in white collar criminal defense, commercial litigation, and antitrust for individual and corporate clients. From April 1997 until 2005, Nash was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. He served in the Appellate Division, representing the government in appeals at the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He served in the Superior Court Division at various times in the misdemeanor section, felony section, grand jury section, violent crime section and community prosecution section, representing the government in prosecutions before the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He also served in the Criminal Division in the transnational/major crimes section and gang section, where he represented the government in prosecutions at both the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Nomination to Court of Appeals On June 5, 2026, President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Nash to an undesignated seat on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Personal Nash is married to Mary Ruppe Nash and has three children. They reside in Washington, D.C.