DEBORAH K. CHASANOW, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, since October 1993. Member, Committee on Building Public Trust and Confidence in the Justice System, 1998-99.
Assistant attorney general, 1975-79, and Chief, Criminal Appeals Division, 1979-87; Office of Attorney General. Consultant to criminal and appellate rules subcommittees of Court of Appeals Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure. Member, Governor's Advisory Board on Rape and Sexual Offenses, 1982-84; Governor's Task Force to Review the Defense of Insanity, 1982-84. U.S. Magistrate Judge for District of Maryland, 1987-93. Born in Washington, DC, April 23, 1948. Douglass College, Rutgers University, B.A., 1970, Phi Beta Kappa; Stanford University School of Law, J.D., 1974. Law clerk to Judge David L. Cahoon, Montgomery County Circuit Court, 1974-75. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1974; District of Columbia Bar, 1975. Member, Maryland State Bar Association (past member, committee on pattern jury instructions, criminal; past chair, section on criminal law & practice; past council member, section on litigation). Member, Prince George's County and Women's Bar Associations. Private practice of law, Cole and Groner, Washington, DC, Aug.-Dec. 1975. Past lecturer (constitutional criminal procedure & evidence), University of Baltimore School of Law, 1978-84, and University of Maryland School of Law, 1987-93, 1998. Faculty member, American Academy of Judicial Education; Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers (MICPEL). Member, Federal Magistrate Judges Association; District Judges Association. National Association of Women Judges. Member, Marlborough American Inn of Court (past president); Wrangler's Law Club. Office: (301) 344-0634.
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