Judge Matthew J. Maddox: Nominee for the
United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Matthew J. Maddox has served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Maryland since 2022. Previously, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland from 2015 to 2022. From 2012 to 2014, Judge Maddox worked as a litigation associate at Holland & Knight LLP. He served as a law clerk for Judge Andre M. Davis on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 2014 to 2015 and for Judge Gerald Bruce Lee on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2011 to 2012. Judge Maddox received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2011 and his B.A. from Morgan State University in 1999.
Judge Brendan Abell Hurson: Nominee for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Judge Brendan Abell Hurson has served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Maryland since 2022. Previously, Judge Hurson served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender and Senior Litigation Counsel in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland from 2007 to 2017 and again from 2018 to 2022. He also served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Virgin Islands from 2017 to 2018 and worked as an associate at Schulman, Hershfield, and Gilden, P.A. in Baltimore, Maryland, from 2006 to 2007. From 2005 to 2006, Judge Hurson served as a law clerk for Judge Margaret B. Seymour on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. He received his J.D., with honors, from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2005 and his B.A. from Providence College, cum laude, in 2000