Contributor Bios - Rethinking the Criminal Justice System

Page Croyder

Page Croyder spent nearly 21 years with the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office before retiring from that agency in January, 2008. She began her legal career as a paralegal and attorney for a legal aid program in rural Virginia, and then spent four years as a commissioned officer and law specialist for the U.S. Coast Guard in New York City. After moving to Baltimore and becoming a city prosecutor, she served as a trial attorney, Chief of the Charging Division, Chief of Personnel, and Deputy State's Attorney. She earned her B.A. from the University of Maryland and her law degree from The George Washington University. She also holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, and is a retired commander in the Coast Guard Reserve. Page has lived in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore for the past 21 years, and resides there with her son.

Doug Colbert

Doug Colbert is a Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Law School, where he teaches the Access to Justice criminal defense clinic, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Evidence, and Race and Criminal Justice seminar. Previously, he directed the criminal justice clinic and teaching civil rights at Hofstra Law School and visiting at Northeastern and Utah Law Schools. Prior to entering teaching, he was a senior trial attorney in the criminal defense division of the NYC Legal Aid Society. He founded and directed the Lawyers at Bail Project, which represented 4,000 indigent defendants at bail hearings. . Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Public Justice Center and the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association. He is a past chair of the Maryland State Bar Association's Section on Correctional Reform.

Maureen Rowland

CEM is pleased to welcome Baltimore Assistant Public Defender Maureen Rowland to Rethinking the Criminal Justice System. Rowland is also a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Law.