Areas of Experience

Personal injury, premises liability, products liability, business dissolution; family law including child/spousal support, custody/visitation and equitable distribution; trusts & estates, real property, civil rights, consumer, contracts, defamation, disability, employment, environmental, financial, governmental, insurance coverage and professional liability.

Professional Experience

• Judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland, 2008-2018.

• Judge, Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, 1998-2008.

• Associate Judge, Circuit Court for Wicomico County, 1st Judicial Circuit, 1996-1998.

• Former Partner, Adkins & Allen, LLP.

• Former Partner and Associate, Adkins, Potts & Smethurst.

Affiliations

• Fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation.

• Past President, Wicomico County Bar Association.

• Past President, Women’s Bar Association of Maryland, Eastern Shore Chapter.

• Former Member, Maryland Judicial Conference, Civil Law and Procedure Committee.

• Past Chair, Advisory Committee to Explore the Feasibility of Maryland’s Adoption of the Uniform Bar Examination.

• Past Chair, Commission on Judicial Disabilities.

• Former Member, Judges, Masters and Juvenile Justice Committee.

• Former Member, Trial Court Judicial Nominating Commission, 1st Judicial Circuit.

• Former Member, Ethics Commission, Wicomico County.

• Former Member, Attorney General’s Advisory Council, Family Court Committee.

• Co-Recipient, Rita C. Davidson Award, Women’s Bar Association of Maryland.

• Recipient, Dorothy Beatty Memorial Award, Women’s Law Center of Maryland.

• Member, Maryland State Bar Association. Former Member, Committee on Judicial Personnel Issues; Committee on Laws.

• Former Member, Committee for Dean Search, University of Maryland, Carey School of Law

Education

• University of Maryland, Carey School of Law, J.D. (with honors), Member of Law Review

• Lawrence University, B.A.