An adjunct professor in the GW Law School will be sworn in today as the newest D.C. Superior Court judge.

Danya Dayson, who has taught part-time at the law school since 2007, will serve a 15-year term on the court after being nominated for the post by President Barack Obama last July and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in November.

The D.C. Superior Court includes about 60 judges and 24 magistrate judges, and hears the city’s civil and criminal cases.

Dayson co-taught a seminar on the death penalty at the law school last fall.

She earned her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1998 and has practiced criminal law and family law in D.C.