Marc D. Loud has been the Chief Administrative Judge of the DC Contract Appeals Board since 2010. In FY26 to date, the Board is in its 12th consecutive year without having a single backlogged case and has closed 100% of all case-types in a timely manner. The Board has resolved 53.3% of its FY26 closed cases through settlement prior to trial or written disposition, thereby minimizing costs to litigants. Additionally, the DC Courts have affirmed the Board in 11 consecutive cases dating back to 2017. In recent years, the Board also digitized and uploaded nearly 1.2 million pages of legacy case records for public viewing on our website.

During Judge Loud’s overall tenure, the Board has achieved a net reduction of over 90% in open cases. In addition, Judge Loud and his leadership team have modernized the Board’s courtroom and other technology  (e.g., moving from premises servers to a cloud environment), updated the Board’s practice and procedure rules (2020), created the Board’s online calendar of upcoming trials/pretrials, and worked successfully with the Mayor and Council of the District of Columbia to secure adequate resources. The Board has also worked with  numerous area law schools to create internship opportunities for law students.

Prior to joining CAB, Judge Loud served as a Board member and Chairperson of the DC Board of Zoning Adjustment, and in various capacities in local government including Deputy Chief of Staff/Deputy Legal Counsel to former DC Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly, and Attorney-Advisor, Manager of Agency Programs and Special Assistant for Procurement in the DC Office of the City Administrator. As a private practitioner, Loud served as Of Counsel in the Washington, DC office of Cochran & Lotkin, and appeared as lead counsel in cases before the DC Contract Appeals Board, the US Court of Appeals (4th Circuit), the US District Court for the District of Columbia, the US District Court for the Southern District of Maryland, the DC Superior Court, the DC Board of Zoning Adjustment, and the US Merit Systems Protection Board. Judge Loud has also served as Secretary of the Board of Contract Appeals Bar Association, is a former Vice President of the DC Association of Administrative Law Judiciary. Judge Loud was a founder of the Justice Harry Blackmun Summer Law College for Teens program in Washington, DC, and has been active in a host of community and civic organizations.

Judge Loud received his Juris Doctor degree from the historic Howard University School of Law in Washington, DC. In October 2025, Judge Loud was installed by special ceremony on the Howard Law School’s “Alumni Judge Wall”. Judge Loud is a member of the DC Bar and is admitted and qualified as an Attorney and Counsellor of the Supreme Court of the United States.