Associate County Attorney, Prince George's County, 1987-89. Member, Special Joint Committee on Minorities in the Legal Profession, 1987. Member, Redistricting Commission, Prince George's County, 1991; Government Operations Review Commission, Prince George's County, 1992-93. State's Attorney, Prince George's County, 1994-95. Member, Governor's Task Force on Judicial Nominating Commissions, 1995; State Administrative Board of Election Laws, 1995-98.
Born in Washington, DC, January 24, 1958. Attended Wilde Lake High School, Columbia, Maryland; Pennsylvania State University, B.S., 1979; University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., 1986. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1986; District of Columbia Bar, 1993. Member, American Bar Association; National Bar Association; Maryland State Bar Association (co-chair, special committee on leadership academy, 2002-; member, special committee, on civics & law, 2011-); J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association (president, 1992); Women's Bar Association of Maryland (president, 1994-95); Prince George's County Bar Association (president, 1998-99). Member, Marlborough Inns of Court, 1989-94. Board of Directors, Law Foundation of Prince George's County, 1990-93; People's Pro Bono Action Center. Member, Joint Bar Association Advisory Committee of the Southern Division of Maryland, 1994-. Member, Alan Goldstein Inns of Court, 1995-. Alumni board member, University of Maryland School of Law, 1995-. Board member, University of Maryland Foundation, Inc., 1996-98. Secretary, Judicial Division Executive Committee, National Conference of State Trial Judges, 2010-11. Distinguished Woman Award, Alliance of Black Women Attorneys of Maryland, 1997. Maryland's Top 100 Women, Daily Record, 1999, 2001. Howard County Women's Athletic Hall of Fame, 2000. Wilde Lake High School Hall of Fame, 2000. Maryland Leadership in Law Award, Daily Record, 2004. Rita C. Davidson Award, Women's Bar Association of Maryland, 2009.
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