The Hon. Videtta A. Brown is an associate judge for the Baltimore City Circuit Court in Maryland. She was appointed to the bench by former Governor Martin O’Malley on February 16, 2010.
Brown has held assignments on the Commission on Child Custody Decision Making as well as the Domestic Violence Subcommittee of the Family Law Committee of the Maryland Judicial Conference.
Prior to her appointment, Brown was an associate judge for the Baltimore City District Court, a position to which she was named in 2008.
Brown earned a bachelor’s degree in speech and theater arts from North Carolina A&T State University in 1979. She then completed a J.D. at the University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law in 1987. Brown was admitted to the State Bar of Maryland in 1988.
After graduating from law school, Brown began her legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. Mabel Houze Hubbard of the Baltimore City Circuit Court. She served in that capacity until 1989, at which time she became an assistant state’s attorney for the Baltimore City Office of the State’s Attorney. During that time, she held assignments in the Juvenile Division (1989 to 1991), the Misdemeanor Unit (1991 to 1995), the Narcotics Division (1995 to 1996), the Domestic Violence Unit (1997 to 2003), and the Domestic Violence Division (2003 to 2008).
Her memberships have included the Baltimore City Bar Association, the Monumental City Bar Association, the Maryland State Bar Association, and the Women’s Bar Association of Maryland. She also sat on the Executive Board of the Jordan Taylor Brown Foundation and the Board of Payne Memorial Outreach, Inc.
She is a recipient of the Women in Service Award from the Maryland Lieutenant Governor (2001) and the Certificate of Merit from the National Domestic Violence Hotline (1999).
Brown was born in Dante, Virginia. She has been actively involved with Payne Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church and Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and she has served as Editor of GYE NAME, an educational quarterly newsletter for West African ministry.