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Maryland Fellows
 Fellows and Sustaining Fellows are attorneys in the Academy who seek referrals and who have met the highest ethical and competency standards for admission to the Academy. They are active practitioners with the most knowledge, skill, and experience in the field of adoption. Sustaining Fellows are Fellows who have provided additional financial support to the Academy to further its purposes. The Academy was formed to study, encourage, promote and improve the laws and practice of law pertaining to the adoption of children and the creation of families throughout the United States and abroad.
 


Jeffrey Ewen Badger
Member Since 1992
Domestic Adoption • Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • 
Contested Adoption

www.longbadger.com
P.O. Box 259, Salisbury, MD 21803-0259
TEL (410) 749-2356; FAX (410) 749-8731


Ellen Ann Callahan
Member Since 1990
Domestic Adoption • Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • 
Intercountry Adoption • Contested Adoption

www.adoptinmaryland.com
110 Chevy Chase Street, Suite 306, Gaithersburg, MD 20878
TEL (301) 258-2664; FAX (301) 258-2665


Jennifer Fairfax
Member Since 2007
Domestic Adoption • Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • 
Intercountry Adoption • Assisted Reproduction • 
Contested Adoption • Grandparent Representation • 
LGBT

www.jenniferfairfax.com
827 Woodside Parkway, Silver Spring, MD 20910
TEL (301) 221-9651; FAX (240) 491-9551


John R. Greene
Member Since 2000
Domestic Adoption • Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • 
Grandparent Representation • Intercountry Adoption • 
Assisted Reproduction • Contested Adoption • 
Mediation • Special Needs Children • 
LGBT

www.familiesthruadoption.com
156 South Street, Annapolis, MD 21401
TEL (410) 268-4500; FAX (410) 269-6952


Sharon Fast Gustafson
Member Since 2002
Domestic Adoption • Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • 
Intercountry Adoption • Special Needs Children • 
Contested Adoption • Mediation • 
Grandparent Representation

www.sharonfastgustafson.com
4041 N. 21st Street, Arlington, VA 22207-3040
TEL (703) 527-0147; FAX (703) 527-0582


Sherry L. Leichman
Member Since 2006
Domestic Adoption • Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • 
Contested Adoption • Mediation • 
Grandparent Representation • Assisted Reproduction

www.leichmansnyderlaw.com
51 Monroe Street, Suite 1605, Rockville, MD 20850
TEL (301) 545-1840; FAX (301) 545-1842


Mark T. McDermott
Member Since 1990
Domestic Adoption • Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • 
Contested Adoption • Intercountry Adoption

www.theadoptionadvisor.com
910 17th Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, DC 20006
TEL (202) 331-1440; FAX (202) 331-1442


Harvey Schweitzer
Member Since 2000
Domestic Adoption • Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • 
Contested Adoption • Assisted Reproduction • 
Grandparent Representation • Intercountry Adoption

www.schweitzerlaw.net
4520 East-West Highway, Suite 700, Bethesda, MD 20814
TEL (301) 469-3382; FAX (301) 469-3371


Margaret "Peggy" Swain
Member Since 1995
Domestic Adoption • Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • 
Assisted Reproduction • LGBT

P.O. Box 219, Riderwood, MD 21139-0219
TEL (443) 857-3350; FAX (410) 321-4718


Carolyn H. Thaler
Member Since 1993
Domestic Adoption • Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • 
Contested Adoption • Mediation

29 W. Susquehanna Avenue, Suite 202, Towson, MD 21204
TEL (410) 828-6627; FAX (410) 339-5298


Peter J. Wiernicki
Member Since 1991
Domestic Adoption • Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • 
Intercountry Adoption • Assisted Reproduction • 
Special Needs Children • Contested Adoption • 
Grandparent Representation

11140 Rockville Pike, Suite 620, Rockville, MD 20852
TEL (301) 230-2446; FAX (301) 230-7108


Michele Zavos
Member Since 2005
Intercountry Adoption • Domestic Adoption • 
Interstate (ICPC) Adoption • Contested Adoption • 
Mediation • Grandparent Representation • 
Assisted Reproduction • LGBT

www.zavosjunckerlawgroup.com
1400 Spring Street, Suite 460, Silver Spring, MD 20910
TEL (301) 562-8220; FAX (301) 562-8224

Honorary and Judicial Fellows
Honorary or Judicial Fellows are those who have made valuable contributions to adoption law as law school professors, judges, or others who have achieved special recognition for their service in the field of adoption. Honorary and Judicial Fellows do not accept referrals of adoption cases.

Ruth Ann Jakubowski (Judicial)
Member Since 2011

401 Bosley Avenue, Room 505, Towson, MD 21204
TEL (410) 887-2628; FAX (410) 296-1324
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