The Honorable Adam R. Hunter currently serves as the Chair/Chief Administrative Judge of the D.C. Rental Housing Commission. He was appointed to the Rental Housing Commission by Mayor Muriel Bowser and confirmed by the DC Council in April 2022. Judge Hunter assumed the role of Chair/Chief Administrative Judge in February 2024.
Judge Hunter has extensive experience as a litigator in Washington, DC. Prior to Judge Hunter’s appointment, he was a founding partner of Hunter & Johnson, PLLC, a boutique litigation firm based in Washington, DC. His litigation experience included representing both landlords and tenants in Superior Court and before the Office of Administrative Hearings, civil litigation, and criminal defense. Part of his practice was dedicated to representing District of Columbia residents in criminal cases through the Criminal Justice Act.
Prior to forming Hunter & Johnson, PLLC, Judge Hunter was Of Counsel with Harden & Pinckney, PLLC in the District of Columbia with a primary focus on criminal defense and civil litigation. He clerked for the Honorable Lorraine Pullen (Ret.) in Middlesex County Superior Court Criminal Division in New Jersey.
Judge Hunter is currently an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at Howard University School of Law. In that capacity he serves as the coach of its Huver I. Brown Trial Advocacy Moot Court Team. This advance-level class focuses on teaching second- and third-year law students trial advocacy skills and evidence.
Judge Hunter is a graduate of Howard University School of Law (JD) and Howard University (BAs Economics and Political Science cum laude). While in law school, he was a Marshall-Brennan Fellow teaching constitutional law at Eastern Senior High School and at the Youth Services Center (DC Youth Detention Center) and was captain of the Huver I. Brown Trial Advocacy Moot Court Team. Judge Hunter currently serves as a board member for the Washington Government Relations Group Foundation. He previously served as a board member for the social justice advocacy group known as Rising for Justice (formerly DC Law Students in Court Program), for twelve years.