2021 Judicial Conference Program

KEN CAPONE People on the Go Maryland 7000 Tudsbury Road, Merritt Family Building | Windsor Mill, MD, 21244

KEN CAPONE is the public policy director of People on the Go Maryland. Capone was one of only 11 people appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. He was the immediate past president of the Disability Rights Maryland Board and a member of the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Coalition. Capone was instrumental in the passing of the Ken Capone Equal Employment Act in 2016, which phases out the subminimum wage certificates. LAURA E. MCMAHON, ESQ. LGBTQ Bar Association of Maryland Maryland Office of The Public Defender | 1400 East North Avenue | Baltimore, MD 21211 LAURA E. MCMAHON is the current President of the LGBTQ Bar Association of Maryland. Prior to becoming President, Laura served on the Judicial Nominations Committee of the LGBTQ Bar Association of Maryland. Laura has been an Assistant Public Defender for the Maryland Office of the Public Defender since February 2019. Prior to her position as an APD, she worked as Staff Attorney, Pro Bono Coordinator, and Director of Training at FreeState Justice, a statewide LGBTQ legal services and policy advocacy organization. Laura graduated from UDC Law and Smith College. She lives in Baltimore City.

HONORABLE LAWRENCE V. HILL, JR. Circuit Court for Prince George’s County | 14735 Main Street | Upper Marlboro, MD 20772

LAWRENCE V. HILL, JR. was born in Washington, DC., and raised in Landover, Maryland. He attended DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland. Judge Hill graduated from Hampton University in 1988 with a B.A. in Political Science and the University of Maryland Law School in 1992 with a J.D. He practiced as an attorney for 15 years in litigation to include criminal defense, civil, personal injury and family law. In 2008, Judge Hill was appointed by Governor Martin O’Malley to the District Court of Maryland for Prince George’s County. In 2014, he was appointed to the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County as an associate judge. He served as a juvenile coordinating judge from 2016-2019 and, in 2016, was appointed as a judge on the Prince George’s County Re-Entry Court, a problem-solving court for formerly incarcerated individuals. LUCIENE PARSLEY Legal Director Disability Rights Maryland | 1500 Union Avenue, Suite 2000 | Baltimore, MD 21211 LUCIENE PARSLEY is the legal director of Disability Rights Maryland (DRM). She oversees the organization’s work related to rights protections for individuals with mental health diagnoses including opposing coercive interventions and investigating abuse and neglect in state and community programs. Luciene also has extensive experience in protecting and advancing the housing rights of individuals with disabilities who face discrimination and institutional poverty. Her work has resulted in significant protections for non-elderly persons with mental health diagnoses obtaining integrated, affordable housing in Baltimore and elsewhere. Luciene has helped to end practices of restraint and seclusion and challenged involuntary medication procedures.

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