Confirmed

Professionally Diverse

Deborah Boardman

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

NominatedApril 19, 2021

ConfirmedJune 23, 2021

  • Judge Boardman was a Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court of Maryland from September 2019 to June 2021, when she was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
  • Judge Boardman served as a Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland from 2008 to 2019. She was appointed the First Assistant Public Defender in 2015.
  • As a magistrate judge, Boardman ordered the Baltimore Police Department to release documents pertaining to the conviction of Malcom Bryant, who was convicted of murder and later exonerated by a DNA test.