The Prince George's County Circuit Court
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The Honorable
Dwight D. Jackson
7th Judicial Circuit
Associate Judge |
| Circuit Court for Prince George's County, MD |
Associate
Judge, August 7, 2000 to present
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| United States Department
of Justice |
Trial Attorney, Criminal
Division Terrorism and Violent Crime Justice Section,
1995 to 2000
Represented the United States in litigation involving
Violent criminal organizations; co-authored the National
Strategy to Coordinate Gang Investigations ? A Report
To President Clinton and Congress in 1996
Member of the Youth Gang Consortium, the Native American
Issues Subcommittee, and the FBI and INS Shooting Incident
Review Groups; lecturer and trial advocacy instructor
at the Department's National Advocacy Center in Columbia,
South Carolina |
State's Attorney's Office
Prince George's County, MD |
Assistant State's Attorney,
1987 to 1995
Senior Trial Attorney, Homicide Unit 1991 to 1995
Ran unsuccessfully for the elected position of State's
Attorney for Prince George's County in 1994 when the
Honorable Alexander Williams, Jr was nominated to the
Federal Bench |
| Private Practice |
Associate, Meyers Billingsley,
Shipley, Curry, Rodbell & Rosenbaum, Zoning Department,
1985 to 1987
Maryland Public Service Commission, 1983 to 1985, first
African-American attorney to work for the Commission
Staff
Legal Aid Bureau, 1982 to 1983, represented indigent
clients in landlord/tenant disputes |
| Employment |
Newspaper reporter for several
newspapers owned by Capital Cities Communications, including
the Kansas City Star, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the
News Democrat (Belleville, Illinois) and the Oakland
Press |
| Law School |
JD, University of Maryland
School of Law, 1982 |
| Undergraduate |
BS, Psychology with honors,
Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1978
Editor of the campus student newspaper The Meter
DuVal Senior High School, 1974 |
| Personal Information |
Born on December,
5, 1956 in Crawfordsville, Arkansas
The First-born child of John D. and Shirley V. Jackson
Four younger sisters
Parents moved to Washington, DC in 1958
Father served for 20 years on the Metropolitan Police
Department and later became an investigator for the Department
of Health and Human Resources before Retiring in 1996
Mother was an elementary school teacher for 30 years
at L.E. Moten Elementary School in Southeast, Washington,
DC
The Jackson family moved to Landover, Maryland in
1964. Married to Gwendolyn O. Clark, and has two daughters. |
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