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BYRON E. MACFARLANE, Register of Wills (Democrat)
Legislative director to Delegate Peter Franchot, 2004-06.
Raised in Howard County, Maryland. Attended Howard County public schools; Glenelg High School; University of Maryland, College Park, B.A. (political science), 2005; University of Baltimore School of Law, J.D., 2008. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 2009. Member, Maryland State Bar Association (estate & trust law section; young lawyers section); Howard County Bar Association (estate & trust law section; young lawyers section). Member, Howard County Democratic Central Committee, 2006-10. President, Maryland Registers of Wills Association, 2013-16 (member, 2010-; automation committee; personnel committee; chair, legislative committee, 2011-12; vice-president, 2012-13). Member, Maryland Association of the Judges of the Orphans' Court, 2011-13; National College of Probate Judges, 2011-. Adjunct faculty (wills, trusts & estates), Howard University School of Law, 2015-. Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention, 2016. Founding member, Howard County Estate Planning Council. Member, League of Women Voters of Howard County; Columbia Democratic Club; Thurgood Marshall Democratic Club; American Civil Liberties Union; NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland; Human Rights Campaign; Sierra Club. Honorary alumnus member, Omicron Delta Kappa National Honor Society. "40 Under 40" honoree, Baltimore Business Journal, 2013.
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