Associate Judge, Baltimore City Circuit Court, 8th Judicial Circuit, December 21, 1998 to January 25, 2012. Judge-in-Charge, Criminal Docket, November 2001 to January 2003. Vice-Chair, Business and Technology Case Management Program, 2011. Member, Juvenile Law Committee, Maryland Judicial Conference, 1999-2001. Circuit Representative, 8th Judicial Circuit, Conference of Circuit Judges, 2006-12.
Chair, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, Baltimore City, 2001-03. Member, State Advisory Board for Juvenile Services, 2002-04.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, April 30, 1959. Attended Park School; Bucknell University, B.A. (economics), cum laude, 1981; University of Baltimore School of Law, J.D., 1984 (american jurisprudence award for legal skills, 1982; staff member, university of baltimore law review, 1983-84). Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1985. Associate, Melnicove, Kauffman, Weiner, Smouse & Garbis, P.A., 1984-89. Partner, Weinberg & Green, LLC, 1989-98; Saul Ewing, LLP, 1998. Member, American Bar Association, 1984-; Maryland State Bar Association, 1985- (judicial administration section; litigation law section; committee to revise the Maryland pattern jury instructions for criminal cases, 2003-08); Baltimore City Bar Association, 1985-. Author, "Criminal Procedure - Constitutional Law - Refusal to Allow Defendant to Introduce Testimony of Alibi Witness Was Neither an Abuse of Discretion Nor a Violation of Due Process When the Defendant Failed to Comply with Procedural Notice of Alibi Rule," University of Baltimore Law Review, vol. 13 (1984). Member, Barristers Law Club, 1989- (president, 2001). Volunteer, Baltimore Reads, Inc., 1994-98. Member, Leadership Baltimore County, 1994-. Fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation, 1997-. Member, Serjeants Inn Law Club, 1997- (president, 2007-08). Board of Directors, Library Company for Baltimore City Bar, 2001-06; Baltimore Courthouse and Law Museum Foundation, 2002-. Co-representative for Baltimore City Circuit Court to Maryland Circuit Court Judges Association, 2003-06. Fellow, Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource Center (ASTAR), 2005-. Board of Directors, Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund, 2007-. Maryland Leadership in Law Award, Daily Record, 2006. Member, Beth El Congregation, 1959- (board of directors, 1990-94).
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