In 1976, she joined the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, where served as Chief of the Superior Court Grand Jury Section from 1980 to 1982.
She then transferred to the Fraud Section, where she worked until being appointed to a new seat on the Superior Court in 1984.
While serving as Deputy Presiding Judge and Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division, Kramer worked to establish and then presided over the new East of the River Community Court, which hears some misdemeanor cases arising out of arrests east of the Anacostia River in the District of Columbia.
[2] Kramer put her name forward for vacancies on the Court of Appeals in 1989 and 1991 and was finally nominated in 2004 to replace John M.
[1] The Senate did not act on her first nomination, but President Bush renominated her in 2005 and she was confirmed.