70 Am. U. L. Rev. F. 135 (2021).

* The Honorable Zuberi Bakari Williams is an Associate Judge in the Maryland State District Court. Before his appointment to the bench, he served as an Assistant Attorney General for the District of Columbia and was an attorney with Venable LLP, an AmLaw top 100 law firm. He is also an Adjunct Professor at both American University Washington College of Law and American University School of Public Affairs. He has won a litany of state and national awards, including the National Bar Association’s Top 40 Under 40, the Maryland Daily Record’s VIP List of Most Successful by 40, and the Leadership Center of Excellence’s Top 40 Under 40 trailblazers in the DC Metro Area. He is also recognized as a Top Leader in the Law in the State of Maryland. He was appointed to the Maryland Judiciary’s Commission on Equal Justice and sits on the Montgomery County Bar Associations’ Racial Justice Council.

Thanks to Caroline Koch for the uplift and to my law clerk, Janki Kaswala, for her research and willingness to argue with me on her own time. Special thanks to all the Black judges and ally judges who came before me and sit shoulder to shoulder with me now. They are all Lewis-esque “good trouble[makers].” Scholarship, perseverance, and uplift.

The views expressed in this Response are my own and do not reflect the views of the Maryland Judiciary.

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