426 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
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web: http://sarbanes.house.gov
600 Baltimore Ave., Suite 303, Towson, MD 21204
Special Assistant to State Superintendent of Schools, State Department of Education, 1998-2005.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, May 22, 1962. Attended Gilman School; Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, A.B., cum laude, 1984; Fulbright Scholar, Greece, 1985; Harvard University School of Law, J.D., 1988. Law clerk to Judge J. Frederick Motz, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 1988-89. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1988. Member, American Bar Association; Maryland State Bar Association. Attorney, Venable, LLP, 1989-2006 (chair, health care practice; hiring committee, 1992-96). Founding member, Board of Trustees, Dunbar Project, 1990-94. Board of Directors, Public Justice Center, 1991-2006 (president, 1994-97); Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies, 1991- (past chair, membership committee). Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention, 2008. Unsung Hero Award, Maryland Chapter, Association of Fundraising Professionals, 2006. Arthur W. Machen, Jr., Award, Maryland Legal Services Corp., 2006. Married; three children.