HON. MATTHEW J. FADER is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.  He joined the Court, then named the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and was named chief judge in April 2022.  He was previously a member of Maryland’s intermediate appellate court where he served as an associate judge beginning in 2017 and as chief judge beginning in 2018.  Before joining the bench, he was a trial atorney with the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Division, Commercial Liigation Branch beginning in 1999; an attorney in private practice beginning in 2002; and an assistant attorney general with the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, Civil Litigation Division beginning in 2010.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and his law degree from Yale law School.  He is married with three children.