2023-2024
Officers
Rachel W. Samakow, Chair
Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company
Derek Van De Walle, Chair-Elect
Baltimore City Law Department
Jacob Dorfman, Treasurer
Schlachman, Belsky, Weiner & Davey, P.A.
Immediate Past Chair
James Robinson
Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP
Elected Member
Lauren Lake
Gordon Feinblatt, LLC
Members at Large
Kayla DiNuccio
Kiernan Waters
Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company
Greg Waterworth
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP
Committees
Awards
Kendrick K. McLeod
Baltimore City Department of Law
Samuel R. Pulver
The Yost Legal Group
Continuing Legal Education
Megan Micco
Kramon & Graham, P.A.
Alison Schurick
Baker Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
Diversity & Inclusion
Kumudha Kumarachandran
Sunny Shim
Frost Law
Events
Stephen Craig
Tarpine, Heller & Pendergrass
Kayla DiNuccio
Life & The Law
Natalie Krajinovic
Office of the Attorney General
Kate McComiskey
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
Membership
Sarah P. Belardi
Office of the Attorney General
Maria Bermudez
State Attorney’s Office of Baltimore City
Mentoring
Lance Garner
Robinson & Associates
Jacob Hervey Ziff
Frost Law
Nominating
James Robinson
Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP
Policy and Planning
Rachel W. Samakow, Chair-Elect
Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company
Public Education
Zachary Scott Gilreath
Anderson, Coe & King
Kenesha Raeford
Niles, Barton & Wilmer, LLP
Public Relations
Molly Nicholl Inglis
Law Office of Peter T. Nicholl, LLP
Kiernan Waters
Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company
Public Service
Viola Woolums
Mayor’s Commission on Disabilities
Greg Waterworth
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP
Liaisons
Alliance of Black Women Attorneys
Letam P.A. Duson
Office of the State Prosecutor
American Bar Association
Kumudha Kumarachandran
Kerri L. Smith
Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White, LLC
Federal Bar Association
Lauren Lake
Gordon Feinblatt, LLC
Maryland State Bar Association
Kerri L. Smith
Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White, LLC
Monumental City Bar Association
Kendrick McLeod
Baltimore City Department of Law
Women’s Bar Association
Kiernan Waters
Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company
University of Baltimore School Law
Paris Holmes
University of Maryland School of Law
Samantha Fitzgerald