CJDT Appoints Moses Cook, Catherine Bruno to Executive Leadership Roles

October 27, 2025

The D.C. Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure (CJDT) has announced the appointment of Moses A. Cook as its executive director and Catherine S. Bruno as its deputy executive director.

Cook has extensive experience in legal education and nonprofit management, including organizational development, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning. Cook has served as president of FAMM — Families for Justice Reform, director of operations and development at DC Justice Lab, and executive director of Rising for Justice, in addition to teaching law at George Washington University and Georgetown University Law Center. From 2015 to 2019 he served on the D.C. Bar Board of Governors.

Bruno’s leadership experience encompasses criminal and administrative misconduct investigations, ethics training and guidance, compliance risk management, and compliance data analytics. Most recently she led the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) ethics and internal compliance risk efforts and was special assistant to the FBI general counsel. She began her career as an assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia and then deputy assistant inspector general with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Cook and Bruno will advise the CJDT on operational matters, project management, budget management, and strategic planning. They will also work closely with the commission’s special counsel on legal and investigative matters and brief the organization on trends and developments among federal and state commissions across the United States.

Created by Congress in 1970, the commission is an independent body that provides oversight of the District of Columbia Courts, including fitness reviews of D.C. Court judges seeking reappointment upon the expiration of their terms.