2023 Judicial Conference Program

Workshop Bios

HONORABLE CARLOS F. ACOSTA CIRCUIT COURT FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY 50 MARYLAND AVE. | ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20850

CARLOS F. ACOSTA, Assistant Associate Judge, Montgomery County Circuit Court, 6th Judicial Circuit, since January 6, 2022. Associate Judge, District Court of Maryland, District 6, Montgomery County, January 26, 2018 to January 6, 2022. Member, Equal Justice Committee, 2020- (chair, access and fairness subcommittee), Court Access and Community Relations Committee, 2023-, Judicial Council. Trial Attorney, Gang Squad, U.S. Department of Justice, 2006-08. Mérida Program Manager, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 2010-12. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for District of Columbia, 2004-06. Assistant State’s Attorney, Montgomery County, 1994-2000. Member, Juvenile Justice Advisory Council, 2001-05. Assistant State’s Attorney, 2003-06 and Deputy State’s Attorney, 2008-10, Prince George’s County. Member, Governor’s Family Violence Council, 2010. Inspector General, Police Department, Prince George’s County, 2012-18. Member, Work Group on the Implementation and Use of Body-Worn Cameras by Law Enforcement, 2014; Commission Regarding the Implementation and Use of Body Cameras by Law Enforcement Officers, 2015-16; Advisory Board, Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board, 2016-21. Born inWashington, DC, August 4, 1963. University of Maryland, College Park, B.A. (english), 1985, M.A. (rhetoric), 1991; Southern Methodist University School of Law, J.D. (residential life judicial coordinator, 1988-89; resident coordinator, multicultural resource center, office of minority student educaton, 1989-91), 1991. Law clerk to Judge Vincent E. Ferretti, Jr., Montgomery County Circuit Court, 1991-92. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1992; District of Columbia Bar, 1994. Associate, Katten Muchin Zavis and Dombroff, 1992-94; Law Offices of Luis U. Leon, 2000-02; Futrovsky Nitkin and Scherr, Chartered, 2002-03. Member, American Bar Association (co-chair, criminal justice section sentencing committee, 2009-10; chair, law student outreach committee of government and public sector lawyers division, 2016-17); Maryland State Bar Association (leadership academy, 2000- 01; criminal law and practice section council, 2015-); Montgomery County Bar Association. President, Maryland Hispanic Bar Association, 2001-02. Former member, Board of Directors, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Montgomery County. Adjunct Associate Professor, Trial Advocacy Program, Washington College of Law, American University, 1997-. Certificate of Appreciation for Child Abuse Awareness/Prevention Month, Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, 2000. Special Achievement Award for Sustained Superior Performance of Duty, U.S. Department of Justice, 2007. Exemplary Performance Award, Prince George’s County Police Department, 2013. Leadership Award, Maryland Hispanic Bar Association, 2016.

DEREK A. BAYNE, ESQ. COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL DISABILITIES P.O. BOX 340 | LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, MARYLAND 21090

DEREK A. BAYNE is Deputy Assistant Investigative Counsel for the Commission on Judicial Disabilities. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Prior to joining the Commission, Derek was an attorney at Drechsler, Larkin and Walters, P.C., law firm from 2010 to 2016.

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