Hon. Adam R. Hunter serves as Acting Chair and Chief Administrative Law Judge of the District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission. Before his appointment to the Commission, Judge Hunter was a founding partner of Hunter & Johnson, PLLC, a boutique litigation firm based in Washington, D.C. As a criminal and civil litigator, he represented businesses and individuals in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, as well as before the Office of Administrative Hearings.

Judge Hunter also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at Howard University School of Law (Howard Law), where he teaches trial advocacy skills and the mastery of the rules of evidence. He has also served as visiting faculty at Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop. He also serves on the Washington Government Relations Group Foundation board and is a past board member of Rising for Justice (formerly D.C. Law Students in Court Program).

Judge Hunter earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University and Juris Doctor from Howard Law. While in law school, he was a Marshall-Brennan Fellow teaching Constitutional Law at Eastern Senior High School and the District of Columbia’s Youth Services Center.