WHAT: Installation Ceremony for Magistrate Judge Lori E. Parker  
 
WHERE: Courtroom 301 of the Moultrie Courthouse, 500 Indiana Ave, NW 
 
WHEN: Friday, January 20, 2006 at 4:00 p.m. 
 
WHO:  Chief Judge Rufus King, III   Family Court Presiding Judge Anita Josey-Herring   Carolyn N. Graham, Former Deputy Mayor  Monica Barnes Rohrbach, Daughter of Judge Iraline G. Barnes 
 
Biography: Lori Parker is a native Washingtonian and a life-long resident of the District of Columbia.  She attended parochial and public schools in the District of Columbia, and is a 1982 graduate of the Madeira School, located in McLean, Virginia.   
 
Prior to her appointment as a Magistrate Judge in the Family Court of the DC Superior Court, Ms. Parker served in all three branches of District government and on numerous task forces and committees.  She most recently served as the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth, Families and Elders from June 2004 to December 2005, following her appointment by Mayor Anthony A. Williams in January 2004 to oversee the city's social services and public health agencies as the Interim Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth, Families and Elders.  Ms. Parker joined the Williams Administration in January 2002, initially serving as a senior advisor on legal and legislative affairs in the Deputy Mayor’s office and subsequently as the Mayor's Liaison to the Family Court.  While serving as the Mayor’s Liaison to the Family Court, Ms. Parker was responsible for the joint development, management and operation of an onsite liaison office established pursuant to the Family Court Act to facilitate interagency coordination and delivery of services to children and families involved in Family Court proceedings.   From 1999 to 2001, Ms. Parker served as intergovernmental affairs specialist for the Receiver of the District's child welfare agency and on the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect.  Between 1996 and 1999, Ms. Parker served as director of the Superior Court’s Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect Office.  Ms. Parker had previously served as Committee Clerk for the DC Council's Judiciary Committee between 1992 and 1996, under the chairmanships of the Honorable James Nathanson and the Honorable William Lightfoot.  In 1994, Ms. Parker also served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Family Services Division of the Office of the Corporation Counsel.  Upon her graduation from law school, Ms. Parker served as a law clerk to the late Judge Iraline Barnes in Superior Court.  From 1990 to 1992, she was an associate with the law firm Wilkes, Artis, Hedrick and Lane. 
 
Ms. Parker graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1986 with a degree in psychology.  She received her law degree from George Washington University in 1989, and a master's degree in developmental psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1999.