CHICAGO, July 30, 2024 — Pamila J. Brown, associate judge in the Howard County District Court in Ellicott City, Maryland, is a recipient of the 2024 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award.
Brown will receive the award, given annually by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, at a ceremony and reception at 3-5:30 p.m. CDT on Sunday, Aug. 4, at the Swissotel Chicago during the 2024 ABA Annual Meeting.
In addition to Brown, the 2024 award recipients include Dolores Atencio, Estelle H. Rogers, Gina Shishima and Barbara Wall.
“We applaud the achievements of this amazing group of women, who have and will continue to inspire all of us in the legal profession, including the next generation of women lawyers,” said Karol Corbin-Walker, chair of the Commission on Women in the Profession.
Judge Brown has served as an associate judge for the district court in Howard County, Maryland, since 2002 and was named administrative judge in 2017 for Howard and Carroll counties. Judge Brown is a frequent lecturer on ethics, implicit bias, litigation techniques, gender equity, domestic violence and human trafficking, trial advocacy, civics and professionalism.
Judge Brown also has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore Law School and on the faculty of the Southeastern National Institute of Trial Advocacy, the Maryland Judicial College and as a lecturer for the Defense Research Institute and the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada.
Judge Brown currently serves on the American Bar Association Board of Governors and on the Maryland Rules Committee. She is a former president of the Maryland State Bar Association and the Bar Association of Baltimore City.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.
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The Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award, established in 1991, honors outstanding women lawyers who have achieved professional excellence in their area of specialty and have actively paved the way to success for other women in the profession. The award is named for Margaret Brent, the first woman lawyer in America. Brent arrived in the colonies in 1638 and was involved in 124 court cases in more than eight years, winning every case.
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