Admitted
1991, Maryland and U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
Law School
University of Virginia, J.D., 1989
Law School Graduation Year
1989
College
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, B.A., 1985
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. John Motley Morehead Scholar. Executive Editor, Virginia Law Review, 1988-1989. Author: Note: The Trial of Pretrial Dangerousness: Preventive Detention After United States v. Salerno, 75 Va. L. Rev. 639 (1989). Adjunct Professor, University of Baltimore School of Law, 1993-1996. Instructor, Judicial Institute of Maryland, Legal Writing for the Judiciary, 1996-1997. Judicial Clerk to the Hon. J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1989-1990. Assistant Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice, 1991. Assistant Attorney General, State of Maryland: Securities Division, 1993-1995; Civil Litigation Division, 1995-1999.