HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND

STATE'S ATTORNEY


RICHARD H. GIBSON, JR., State's Attorney (Democrat)



State's Attorney, Howard County, since January 7, 2019. Member, Local Management Board [Local Children's Board], Howard County, 2019-. Chair, State's Attorneys' Coordination Council, 2021-. Member, Partial Expungement Work Group, 2021-; Work Group on Home Detention Monitoring, 2021-; Cease Fire Council, 2022-.

Assistant State's Attorney, Baltimore City (major investigations unit), 2006-19. Assistant State's Attorney, Prince George's County, 2004-06.

College of New Jersey, B.S. (law & justice), 1998; Howard University School of Law, J.D. (associate editor, social justice law review), 2003. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 2003; New Jersey Bar, 2003. Law clerk to Judge Herman C. Dawson, Prince George's County Circuit Court, 2003-04. Member, Maryland State Bar Association (co-chair, membership committee); Howard County Bar Association. Fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation. President, Maryland State's Attorneys' Association, 2021-. Member, James McGill Inns of Court. Past president, Waring-Mitchell Law Society. Prosecutor of the Year, Mid-Atlantic Regional Gang Investigation Network, 2016. Married; three children.

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