Judge Dana M. Middleton: Professional Background and Legal Expertise

The Hon. Dana M. Middleton is an associate judge for the Baltimore City Circuit Court in Maryland. She was appointed to the bench by Governor Larry Hogan on September 19, 2017, filling a vacancy created by the retirement of the Hon. Stephen J. Sfekas.

Prior to her appointment, Middleton was an assistant state’s attorney for the Organized Crime Unit of the Criminal Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, a position to which she was named in 2016. Before that, she spent time in the Baltimore City Office of the State’s Attorney (2004 to 2016), where she held assignments as team captain of the Major Investigations Unit, chief attorney of the City Corrections Investigative Unit, and community prosecutor.

Middleton earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Morgan State University in 1998. She then completed a J.D. at George Washington University Law School in 2001.

After graduating from law school, Middleton began her legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. Sheila R. Tillerson Adams of the Prince George’s County Circuit Court. Then, after the conclusion of her clerkship, she entered into private practice, working as an associate at Williams Worthy in Upper Marlboro (2003 to 2004).

Her memberships have included the Maryland State Bar Association, the Baltimore City Bar Association (president), the Monumental City Bar Association, the Alliance of Black Women Attorneys, and the East Arlington Neighborhood Association. She also sat on the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force and the Court of Appeals Mentoring Program of the Maryland Professionalism Center.

She is a recipient of the Presidential Award from the Baltimore City Bar Association (2014) and the Leadership in Law Award from the Daily Record (2020).

Middleton was born in Baltimore, Maryland.