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Litigation Section. She also currently serves as Treasurer and Board member of the Forensics Specialties Accreditation Board (FSAB). She is Past Chair of National Conference of State Trial Judges (NCSTJ) of Judicial Division of ABA (2010-11), and Past President of PA Conference of State Trial Judges. Dr. Domitrovich is a Fellow with the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) and past Chair of Jurisprudence Section of AAFS (2016-2018). In 1996, she participated for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to educate judges in former Soviet Republic nations of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in developing their judicial systems. She currently teaches and lectures at several universities such as The University of Nevada at Reno, the National Judicial College, Michigan University and Gannon University. She has written and orally presented forensic science papers to American Board of Forensic Document Examiners, SWGSTAIN as Member of Scientific Working Group on Bloodstain Pattern Evidence, the Law and Society, the American Psychology-Law Society, the University of Michigan Department of Pathology Forensic and Autopsy Services, the American Bar’s Judicial Division as well as the Appellate Court Section, the PA Bar Assoc.’s Civil Litigation Section and the Family Court Section, the Jurisprudence Section of American Academy of Forensic Sciences as well she has presented her Ph.D. dissertation for Law & Society at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany in 2007. Her Topic was on Court-Appointed Experts in the state courts. MATTHEW J. FADER, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland, since December 14, 2022. Chief Judge, Court of Appeals, April 15, 2022 to December 13, 2022. Chair, Maryland Judicial Conference, 2022- (Chair, Judicial Council, 2022-). Member, Judges, Masters and Juvenile Justice Committee, 2022-. Chair, Hall of Records Commission, 2022-present. Chief Judge, Court of Special Appeals, November 28, 2018 to April 15, 2022 (Judge, At Large, November 1, 2017 to November 28, 2018). Member, Judicial Council, 2019-2022 (executive committee, 2019-2022); Court Operations Committee, 2019-2021; Access and Fairness Subcommittee of Equal Justice Committee, 2020-2022, and Domestic Law Committee, 2021-2022; Judicial Council. Chair, Joint Subcommittee on Post-COVID Judicial Operations, 2021-2022, and member, Remote Hearings Work Group of Court Technology Committee, 2022, and Judicial Education Subcommittee of Education Committee, 2022, Judicial Council. Member, Library Committee, Thurgood Marshall State Law Library, 2019-2022. Trial Attorney, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1999-2002. Chief of Litigation, Civil Litigation Division, Office of Attorney General, 2017 (assistant attorney general, 2010-2012; deputy chief, civil litigation division, 2012-2017). Born in Towson, Maryland, 1973. University of Virginia, B.A. (history & government), 1995; Yale Law School, J.D., 1998. Admitted to Virginia Bar, 1998; Maryland Bar, 1999; Pennsylvania Bar, 2003 (inactive); Ohio Bar, 2007 (inactive). Law clerk to Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, 1998-1999. Associate, K&L Gates LLP, 2002 06 (nonequity partner, 2006-2008; equity partner, 2008-2010). Member, Maryland State Bar Association, 1999-; Howard County Bar Association, 2013-. Member, Honorable James Macgill American Inn of Court, 2012-2013, 2018-. Board of Directors, Glen Mar Early Learning Center, 2010-2013. Coach, youth baseball (with various organizations), 2007-2017 (also youth basketball & soccer). STAR Award, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2003. Rising Star, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Magazine, 2006, 2007, 2008. Alexander Cummings Award for Outstanding Appellate Advocacy, Office of Attorney General, 2016. Influential Marylander, Daily Record, 2020. A View from the Balcony and the Bench: Vignettes of Judicial Courage HONORABLE MATTHEW J. FADER SUPREME COURT OF MARYLAND 361 ROWE BOULEVARD | ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21401

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