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Hon. Nancy B. Shuger (Ret.)
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Experience:
- Associate Judge, District Court for Baltimore City, Maryland (Retired)
- Including conducting pre-trial and settlement conferences
- Attorney, Assistant Attorney General and Principal Counsel to Maryland Department of Human Resources
- Directing Attorney, Evergreen Legal Services
- Staff Attorney and Full-Time Lecturer, Developmental Disabilities Law Project, University of Maryland School of Law
- Advocacy Director, Maryland State Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities
Education:
- J.D., University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland
- Recipient, Am. Jur. Prize for Contracts, Bernstein Prize for Maryland Law Forum Article, and Martin Prize for Moot Court
- B.A., with honors, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Mediation Training:
- 40-Hour Civil Mediation Training Course, Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts, 2006
- 20-Hour Domestic Disputes Mediation Training, Baltimore Mediation Center, 2006
- 40-Hour Civil Mediation Training Course, The National Judicial College, 2010
Awards/Affiliations:
- Member, Court of Appeals Committee on Recalled Judges, 2011-present
- Faculty, Court of Appeals Course on Professionalism, Section on Civil Litigation, 2011-present
- The Governor’s Commission on Judicial Disabilities: Vice-Chair, 2006 to 2011; Member, 2002 to 2011
- Participant, Rule of Law Initiatives (educational exchanges with judges from Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Croatia, Argentina, and Chile): USAID, ABA, RAROLC, and FORES
- Guest Faculty, University of Baltimore School of Law Family Law Clinic, Advocacy in Domestic Violence Cases
- Faculty, Judicial Institute of Maryland
- Faculty, Maryland Institute for the Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers
- Past Member, Maryland Judicial Conference, Committees on Family and Domestic Relations Law and Foster Care Grants
- Panelist, Maryland Judicial Conference Seminars on Technology, Genetics, Unbundled Legal Services, and Hague Convention and International Child Abuse Abduction Remedies Act
- Panelist, District Court of Maryland Judicial Education Conference Seminars on Civil Law and Drug Education
- Past Supervisor, Law Students in Baltimore in the Semester in Practice and Clinical Law Programs of Vermont Law School
- Past Mentor, University of Maryland School of Law
- Past Participant, Harold R. Medina Seminar on the Art of Judging, Princeton University
- Past Staff Member, The Attorney General of Maryland’s Advisory Council on the Family Law Needs of Low-Income Persons
- Past Consultant, The U.S. Legal Services Corporation
- Past Staff Member, The Governor’s Commission on Juvenile Justice
- Past President, J. Dudley Digges Inn of Court
- Member, Maryland State Bar Association, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
- Member, Bar Association of Baltimore City
- Member, Women’s Law Center of Maryland
- Past Member, National Association of Women Judges
- Member, The Simon E. Sobeloff Law Society
- Beth Am Synagogue: Member of Board of Trustees; Second Vice-President
- Recipient, Woman for the Nineties Award from the Laurence G. Pacquin School
- Recipient, Jennifer L. Robbins Award from Attorney General of Maryland in Recognition of Special Achievement in the Field of Human Services