Rule 16 - Assignment of Cases(a) IN GENERAL. Except as provided in Rule 16(b), the clerk will assign new adoption cases to the adoptions calendar.(b) ONE FAMILY, ONE JUDGE. To the greatest extent practicable, feasible, and lawful, actions or proceedings, which are assigned to the Family Court and in which immediate family or household members are parties, will be assigned to the same judge or magistrate judge.(c) SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS. The Chief Judge may specially assign an adoption case for all purposes to a specific calendar or a single judge or magistrate judge. The Chief Judge may delegate to the Presiding Judge of the Family Court the authority to make special assignment of cases to a judge or magistrate judge currently assigned to the Family Court.(d) PROCEEDINGS AFTER ASSIGNMENT. All proceedings in a case after its assignment, including trial, will be scheduled and conducted by the assigned judge or magistrate judge.(e) REASSIGNMENT. When a judge's or magistrate judge's assignment to the Family Court is concluded, the Chief Judge or the Presiding Judge may designate the judge or magistrate judge to whom the case on the calendar of the previous judge or magistrate judge will be reassigned.Adop. R. Sup. Ct. D.C. 16