2021 Judicial Conference Program

ITTA CHANA ENGLANDER, ESQ. LGBTQ Bar Association of Maryland Maryland Office of The Public Defender | 1400 East North Avenue | Baltimore, MD 21211 ITTA CHANA ENGLANDER is a panelist for the 2021 Judicial Conference workshop, entitled, Respecting LGBTQ+ Litigants and Counsel in the Courtroom. She received her B.A. from Goucher College in 2003 and her J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 2009. She has been an adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law since 2000.

HONORABLE JILL P. CARTER Democrat, District 41, Baltimore City Miller Office Building, Room 422 | 11 Bladen Street | Annapolis, MD 21401

JILL P. CARTER is a Maryland State Senator that represents the state’s 41st legislative district, which falls within the municipal boundaries of Baltimore City. She previously represented the district as a member of the House of Delegates for 14 years, from 2003 to 2016.

In December 2016, Senator Carter resigned to become the Director of the Baltimore City Office of Civil Rights, where she worked on issues concerning police misconduct, employment and wage discrimination. Senator Carter stepped down as director in April 2018 after Governor Larry J. Hogan, Jr. appointed her to the Maryland Senate. Senator Carter went on to handily defeat her opponent in the Democratic primary election and secured the seat in the general election, amassing more than 33,000 votes in the process. In her first year in the S enate, Senator Carter was declared one of the biggest winners of the 2019 legislative session by The Baltimore Sun, The Daily Record, and Maryland Matters . Senator Carter is the daughter of the late Walter P. Carter, a revered civil rights activist and a central figure of Maryland’s civil rights movement in the ‘60s and early ‘70s. Her mother, Zerita Joy Carter, was a public-school teacher who specialized in early childhood education. Senator Carter is a graduate of Western High School. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Loyola University and a J.D. from the University of Baltimore, School of Law.

HONORABLE KAREN C. FRIEDMAN Circuit Court for Baltimore City Clarence M. Mitchell Courthouse | 100 North Calvert Street | Baltimore, MD 21202

KAREN C. (CHAYA) FRIEDMAN is an associate judge on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. Prior to that , she was on the benches of the District and Orphans’ courts. While on the District Court, she served as the drug court judge for two years. She currently sits in the criminal division of the Circuit Court. Judge Friedman graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Maryland School of Law and serves on the school’s Board of Governors. She is active in many philanthropic activities in the community. Judge Friedman founded and chairs the Interfaith Domestic Violence Coalition and serves on the Board of the Associated Jewish Charities, the Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel, Year Up and the Baltimore Jewish Council. She has won numerous awards including the Daily Record’s Top 100 Women three times and the Woman’s’ Law Center’s Faith Award. Most importantly, Judge Friedman is the mother of four and grandmother to one handsome grandson.

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