2023 Judicial Conference Program

HONORABLE SIDNEY A. BUTCHER DISTRICT COURT IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY 251 ROWE BOULEVARD | ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21401 SIDNEY A. BUTCHER, Associate Judge , District Court of Maryland, District 7, Anne Arundel County, since January 4, 2019. Board of Directors, Maryland Legal Services Corporation, 2017-. Member, Board of Education, Anne Arundel County, 2018. Assistant Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, 2018-19. Florida A&M University, B.S.; University of Kansas School of Law, J.D. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 2007. Of Counsel, White-Collar Group, Whiteford, Taylor and Preston, LLP. Member, Maryland State Bar Association; Harford County Bar Association. Elijah E. Cummings Award, Anne Arundel County, 2021.

APRIL FRAZIER CAMARA NATIONAL LEGAL AID AND DEFENDER ASSOCIATION 1901 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NW, SUITE 500 | WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006

APRIL FRAZIER CAMARA serves as President and CEO of NLADA. She has been a champion for equal justice for two decades. A graduate of Howard School of Law, she worked as a public defender in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee and at the Public Defender Service (PDS) for the District of Columbia before joining NLADA. She has been a part of the NLADA leadership team for the past five years, most recently serving as Vice President for Strategic Alliances and Innovation and prior to that Chief of Lifelong Learning. She is a co-founder of NLADA’s newest section, the Black Public Defender Association (BPDA), which aims to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in public defense and promote racial equity in criminal legal systems. As the 2020 Chair of the American Bar Association’s influential Criminal Justice Section, she led the adoption of important ABA policy on race equity and prosecution, raising the age for juvenile prosecutions, reparations, abolition of private prisons, and other complex criminal legal issues. In addition to her J.D. from Howard University, she holds a B.A. in from Tennessee State University.

HONORABLE DONINE M. CARRINGTON-MARTIN CIRCUIT COURT FOR CHARLES COUNTY 200 CHARLES STREET | LA PLATA, MARYLAND 20646

DONINEM. CARRINGTON-MARTIN, Associate Judge , Charles County Circuit Court 7th Judicial Circuit, since October 6, 2017. Circuit Representative, 7th Judicial Circuit, Conference of Circuit Judges, 2019-. Member, Equal Justice Committee, 2020-, member, Judicial Council, 2020-. Coordinating Judge, Circuit Court Mediation and ADR Program. Adult Drug Court Presiding Judge, Charles County Circuit Court Drug Court Program, 2022-. Assistant State’s Attorney, Montgomery County, 1996-99. Criminal Defense and Family law attorney, from1999-2003 (Maryland and DC). Assistant State’s Attorney, Prince George’s County, 2003-17 (chief, special victims and family violence unit, 2015-17). Special Prosecutor, Office of State’s Attorney, Charles County, 2015-17. Adjunct Faculty, College of Southern Maryland, 2019- present. Member, Children’s Justice Act Committee, 2017. Born in Brooklyn, New York. Syracuse University, B.S. (broadcast journalism), 1991; Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, J.D., 1995. Law clerk to Judge DeLawrence Beard, Montgomery County Circuit Court, 1995-96. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1995; District of Columbia Bar, 2001. Associate Attorney, Weinstock, Friedman and Friedman, P.A., 1999-2003. Member, Maryland State Bar Association, 2015- (judicial selection committee, 2016-); Montgomery County Bar Association, 1999-2003; Charles County Bar Association, 2016-; J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association, 1999-2003; Salome A. Howard Bar Association, 2016-; Maryland Hispanic Bar Association, 2016-. President, Women’s Bar Association of Maryland, 2017- (member, southern

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