Honorable Zoe Bush was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1994 by President William Jefferson Clinton and is the Deputy Presiding Judge of the Family Court.

Judge Bush was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. She graduated with honors from Wellesley College in 1976 and received a Waddell Fellowship, which permitted her to spend the summer in Ghana to research her honors thesis in history. Judge Bush received her law degree from Harvard Law School in 1979. Judge Bush has served in the Criminal, Civil and Domestic Violence Divisions of the Court as well as in the Family Court. She was Co-chair of the Training Committee of the Family Court for many years, is a member of its Implementation Committee and Panels Oversight Committee and is a past member of the Family Rules Advisory Committee. Judge Bush also serves as a member of the Training Committee of the Superior Court as well as the Jury Management Committee and Library Committee. She is also a member of the Charlotte E. Ray American Inn of Court. She is quite active in bar activities and community service and has also been active in the Wellesley College Alumnae Association.