Goodell DeVries lawyer Carrie J. Williams has been appointed by Maryland Governor Wes Moore to the Appellate Courts Judicial Nominating Commission.
The commission evaluates applicants for vacancies on Maryland's appellate courts based on a variety of factors, including their integrity, temperament, legal knowledge, and professional experience.
In a press release, Governor Moore's office noted there is "historic diversity among all of Maryland's judicial nominating commissions to date, as 57% of all commission members are women; 53% are people of color; 63% of commission chairs are women; and 75% of commission chairs are people of color."
Carrie is a member of Goodell DeVries's Appellate Practice Group. She represents clients across the firm's many practice groups in pre-trial and appellate matters. Carrie brings 16 years of appellate experience at the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, where she served as Principal Counsel for Criminal Policy and, before that, Division Chief of the Criminal Appeals Division. During her government service, Carrie argued more than 50 cases before the Supreme Court of Maryland and hundreds of cases in the Appellate Court of Maryland. She also handled cases in the United States Supreme Court.
Carrie was an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she taught Introduction to Advocacy from 2014-2022.
She is Co-chair (with colleague Derek Stikeleather) of the Maryland State Bar Association's (MSBA) Appellate Practice Committee. She is an editor and frequent contributor to the Maryland Appellate Blog, published by the MSBA. She was recently appointed Chair of the Programming Committee of the Cole-Davidson Appellate Inn of Court.
