Name Shirley Watts Nominated by Parris Glendening | ||
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Education Rutgers School of Law–Camden, Howard University | ||
In memory of shirley m watts brown
Shirley Marie Watts (born ca. 1959) is an American lawyer and jurist from Baltimore, Maryland. Since July 2013, she has served as a Judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest court. Watts is the first African American woman to serve as a judge on the Court of Appeals. Prior to her appointment, she was a judge on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals from 2011 to 2013 and an associate judge on the Baltimore City Circuit Court.
Born in Baltimore, Watts received her B.A. degree from Howard University in 1980. She earned a J.D. degree from Rutgers School of Law–Camden in 1983. On July 3, 2013, Governor Martin O'Malley nominated Watts to fill the seat of retired Chief Judge Robert M. Bell on the Court of Appeals, representing the 6th Appellate Circuit (Baltimore City).