WORCESTER COUNTY
CIRCUIT COURT


MARY MARGARET (PEGGY) KENT, Associate Judge, Worcester County Circuit Court, 1st Judicial Circuit, since January 19, 2018. Chair, Form Revision–E-Mail Address Work Group of Domestic Law Committee, 2022, Judicial Council.

Domestic Relations Magistrate, Juvenile Causes Magistrate, and Family Magistrate, Circuit Court, First Judicial Circuit, 1996-2018. Member, Subcommittee on the Representation of Children in Children in Need of Assistance (CINA) Cases, Foster Care Court-Improvement Implementation Project, 1998-2008; Family Law Advisory Committee, Worcester County Circuit Court, 1999-2018; Juvenile Coordinating Council for Somerset County, 2001-06; Juvenile Coordinating Council for Worcester County, 2004-; Steering Committee, Juvenile Drug Court Training, Worcester County, 2005-.

Staff attorney, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1980-82.

Born in Washington, DC, 1955. Westhampton College, University of Richmond, B.A. (french; english), magna cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa), 1977; T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, J.D., 1980. Admitted to Virginia Bar, 1980; Arizona Bar, 1985; Maryland Bar, 1986. Associate, Paul C. Ewell, P.A., 1986-91. Sole practioner, 1991-1996. Member, Maryland State Bar Association, 1986- (family & juvenile law section, 1996-; alternative dispute resolution section, 2000-); Lower Eastern Shore Chapter, Women's Bar Association of Maryland, 1986-; Worcester County Bar Association, 1987- (family law advisory committee). Fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation, 2004. Member, Council of Masters, 1996-2018. Member, Advisory Council, CASA of the Lower Shore, 2001-. Member, Planning Committee, Atlantic General Hospital, 2010-. Bar Leader Award, Women's Bar Association of Maryland, 2007. Member, St. Paul's by the Sea Episcopal Church, Ocean City, Maryland (outreach committee).

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