Adoption Day

To highlight National Adoption Month, the Family Court Training Committee of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia screened the award-winning documentary Off and Running on November 17. As the lights dimmed, a typical American teenager ...

It’s a dream bigger than any gift that could fit in Santa’s sack. With just over a month before Christmas, 22 DC foster children now have permanent families. The smiles were bright and the tears of joy flowing at the 24th Annual Adoption Day on ...

McDermott Will & Emery LLP pro bono attorneys Joanne Ludovici-Lint (left) and Robert W. Zelnick flank their Children’s Law Center client Paula Lancaster and her newly adopted daughter Zuri at the 23rd Annual Adoption Day ceremony on November 21 at the ...

This past Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and key leaders on adoption issues marked the 10th anniversary of National Adoption Day. The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships was proud to work with ...

Fifth-grade teacher Drew Dalton was eating dinner one evening in 2006 when he tuned in to a TV show featuring children in need of parents. When one of Dalton's students -- Devon, a shy boy who had spent much of his life in foster care -- appeared on ...

Jackson is the presiding judge of the family court of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He was appointed to the bench as an associate judge in June of 1992 by President George H.W. Bush. Where are you from? How did you get to DC? From ...

On November 21 the Superior Court of the District of Columbia’s family court and the DC Child and Family Services Agency will join courts around the country in celebrating the 23rd Annual Adoption Day. Numerous adoptions will be finalized during the ...

It’s late January. Usually around this time of year, there’s a pulsing coming from my purse. I don’t pay attention to it, but like a heart beating in a horror movie, it won’t be ignored. It’s my New Year’s Resolution List. If I open my purse to root ...

Visiting dignitaries and numerous families filled the atrium of the H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse on November 15 to witness the adoption of 16 children during the 22nd Annual Adoption Day, a joint program of the Superior Court of the District of ...

At home, in the minivan, at the dinner table, Damien Harris was badgering Marseeda Reed for something he badly wanted before his 18th birthday. It wasn't an ordinary teenage desire, like a new phone, an iPod or a car, even. He wanted to be adopted. ...