Judge Videtta A. Brown was appointed by the Governor to the Circuit Court in January 2010 after having served almost two years on the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City.

Judge Brown brings to the bench extensive experience as a prosecutor, having served 18 years as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Baltimore City.  For 12 years, she was Chief of the Domestic Violence Division of the Office of the State’s Attorney, supervising the only five-day-a-week District Court domestic violence docket in the State of Maryland. The Division handled approximately 14,000 cases annually.  Judge Brown also developed and supervised the specialized prosecution of domestic violence cases in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.

Judge Brown has served on numerous domestic violence committees and panels.  Since 2001, she has been an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, where she teaches the Domestic Violence and the Law seminar.  She previously worked as an adjunct instructor at Baltimore City Community College.  Judge Brown has also served as a trainer for the American Prosecutor Research Institute and the National District Attorney’s Association, and she currently is a presenter to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.  Judge Brown is a member of the Department of Family Administration-Domestic Violence Subcommittee.  She is the author of “Gang Member Perpetrated Domestic Violence: A New Conversation,” which was published in the University of Maryland School of Law Journal of Race Religion Gender and Class.

Judge Brown is a 1987 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law, a 1979 graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, and a 1975 graduate of Western High School in Baltimore.  She is a member of Payne Memorial A.M.E. Church.