2023 Judicial Conference Program

TOPIC: Search warrants, technology, and the Richardson case

HONORABLE JONATHAN BIRAN SUPREME COURT OF MARYLAND 361 ROWE BLVD. | ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21401

JONATHAN BIRAN, Justice , Supreme Court of Maryland, 5th Appellate Judicial Circuit (Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s Counties), since December 14, 2022. Judge, Court of Appeals, December 16, 2019 to December 13, 2022. Member, Court Operations Committee, 2021-, Judicial Council. Chair, Library Committee, Thurgood Marshall State Law Library, 2022-. Staff Counsel, Office of Independent Counsel, 1995-96. Trial Attorney, Public Integrity Section, U.S. Department of Justice, 1996-2000. Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Connecticut, 2000-06; Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Maryland, 2006-13 (appellate chief, 2010-13). Founding coordinator, Maryland Mortgage Fraud Task Force, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, 2009-10. Born in New York, New York, 1966. Swarthmore College, B.A. (history), with honors, 1988; Stanford Law School, J.D., 1993 (editor, 1991-92 and executive editor, 1992-93, Stanford Law Review). Law clerk to Judge David F. Levi, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 1993-94. Admitted to California Bar, 1993; District of Columbia Bar, 1996; Maryland Bar, 2012. Associate, Skadden Arps, 1994-95. Partner, Biran Kelly LLC, 2013-17. Partner, Rifkin Weiner Livingston LLC, 2018. Shareholder, Baker Donelson, 2018-19. Member, Maryland State Bar Association. HONORABLE JEANNIE E. CHO CIRCUIT COURT FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY 50 MARYLAND AVENUE | ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20853 JEANNIE E. CHO, Associate Judge , Montgomery County Circuit Court, 6th Judicial Circuit, since November 15, 2016. Associate Judge, District Court of Maryland, District 6, Montgomery County, August 24, 2012 to November 15, 2016. Member, Court Access and Community Relations Committee, Judicial Council, 2015-16. Member, Public Defender Regional Advisory Board no. 4, Office of Public Defender, 2009. Board of Trustees, Office of Public Defender, 2011-12. Member, Charter Review Commission, Montgomery County, 2011-12. Member, Character Committee, 7th Appellate Circuit, Court of Appeals, 2012. Assistant State’s Attorney, Montgomery County, 1994-96, 2000-04. Assistant State’s Attorney, Howard County, 1996-2000. Born in Pa Joo, South Korea, 1966. University of Maryland, College Park, B.A. (english), 1989; Loyola University School of Law, J.D., 1992. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1993; District of Columbia Bar, 1994; U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 2005; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2005. Shareholder, Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy, and Ecker, P.A., 2004-08. Partner, Hall and Cho, P.C., 2008-12. Member, Maryland State Bar Association, 1993- (leadership academy fellow, 1996-97; special committee on korean bar, 1996-; leadership academy advisory board, 1997-99; committee on judicial appointments, 1997-; leadership academy committee, 1999-2006; criminal law and practice section council, 2008-; secretary-treasurer, 2010-11, vice-chair, 2011-; chair, asian-american bar, 2011-); Montgomery County Bar Association, 1993- (outreach committee, 1994-95; administration of justice committee, 1995-96; executive committee, 2002-04, 2007-09; co-chair, criminal law section, 2005- 06; member, diversity committee, 2008-15); Howard County Bar Association, 1996-97; Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland, 2002- (vice-president, membership, 2007-08). Member, Maryland State’s Attorneys’ Association, 1996-2004; Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys’ Association, 2004-. Member, Montgomery County Inns of Court, 1994-95, 2004- 07, 2009-; Marlborough Inn of Court, 2006-08. Board of Directors, Montgomery County Bar Foundation, 2005-15. Member, Korean-American Women’s Chamber of Commerce, 2011-12. Maryland Citizen Award, Howard County, 2000. Community

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