Biography
Urbina earned a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1967. He received his law degree from the Law Center at Georgetown University in 1970. He began his legal career as a public defender. He worked for D.C. Public Defender Service from 1970 to 1972 and was in private practice of law in Washington, DC from 1972 to 1974. He was on the faculty of Howard University Law School from 1974 to 1981. In 1981 he became Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and in 1994 President Bill Clinton appointed him to the United States district court to a seat vacated by Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr..
He retired from the Court on May 31, 2012.
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