Judge Stephen J. Sfekas was appointed by the Governor to the Circuit Court in January 2010.

Judge Sfekas practiced law for 37 years before his appointment.  He clerked for Judge Joseph H. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, then served for six years in the Attorney General’s Office, where he was general counsel to the Maryland Medicaid program.  After leaving the Attorney General’s Office in 1981, he engaged in the private practice of law with a focus on the representation of physicians and health care organizations.

He has served on the Board of Directors of The Arc of Baltimore, the Maryland Disabilities Law Center, the Society for Values in Higher Education, and the President’s Advisory Council of UMBC.  He was co-chair of the Governor’s Transition Workgroup on Disabilities in 2008, for which he has received several honors.  He currently is the Secretary of the Health Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association and a Fellow of the Maryland Bar Foundation.  He has been recognized in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law.

Judge Sfekas teaches health care law as an adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, and he taught health care and administrative law at UMBC from 1980 through 2005.  In 2004, he was recognized as Adviser of the Year by UMBC for his work with undergraduate students of the University.

Judge Sfekas is a 1973 graduate of Georgetown University School of Law, received a master’s degree from Yale University in 1972, received his bachelor’s degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1968, and is a 1964 graduate of Baltimore City College.  He and his wife live in the Dickeyville neighborhood of Baltimore and have five grown children and one grandchild with another on the way.  He has been an active layman in the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Baltimore.