Rigsby was born in San Francisco and raised in Vallejo, California.
His father was a cook in the United States Army, and his mother was a nurse.
He became a JAG after graduating from University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and remained in the Army until 2014.
[4] He worked briefly as an assistant United States attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia in 1992, after which he joined the office of the Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia as head of the criminal division.
Rigsby was nominated to the superior court by President George W. Bush on March 2, 2002, and confirmed by the United States Senate on July 25, 2002.