DARRELL BRAMAN

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore

Darrell Braman serves as an independent trustee for Brown Advisory Funds and as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where he teaches business associations, corporate finance and securities regulation. He also serves on the board of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore as treasurer and first vice chair. His expertise in finance, securities regulation, investment management, fund distribution, operations and governance stems from a 27-year career with T. Rowe Price, where he was regarded as a legal thought leader and influencer in the asset management industry.

As managing counsel and vice president at T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. from 1994 to 2021, Braman led a 35-person team and served as secretary of the Price mutual funds. Before joining T. Rowe Price, he served as special counsel in the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1989 to 1994.

Braman’s industry leadership includes chairing the Investment Company Institute’s SEC Rules Committee from 2017 to 2020 and serving on its compliance, exchange traded funds and disclosure committees. He has participated in various industry task forces related to the SEC’s asset management regulatory agenda and regularly serves as a speaker, moderator and presenter at fund industry conferences.

His community service reflects a commitment to education and civic engagement. He serves on the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where he co-chairs the Development Committee. Previously, he chaired the Development Committee for the Board of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Baltimore from 2015 to 2022. His service has earned him the UMB Catalyst for Excellence Award in 2025, the Hineni Leadership Award in 2022 and the Lois Feinblatt Advocate Award in 2020.

“I want to be remembered as someone who made a difference in whatever organization that I was involved with,” Braman said. “Through my nonprofit board work and my teaching role, I feel I can make both a broader impact to the community as well as guide and influence law students who have the potential to be our future leaders.”

A product of Maryland public schools from a middle-class family, Braman received financial aid, Pell Grants and scholarships to pursue his college and law school education. He acknowledges he was not a natural leader and struggled with public speaking early in his career. Through coaching and mentoring at T. Rowe Price, he transformed these weaknesses into strengths. He still reviews recordings of his law school lectures, embodying his commitment to lifelong learning and continuous improvement.

Braman is particularly passionate about two institutions: the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the JCC of Greater Baltimore. He views his law schoolwork as giving back to an institution that gave him his career start while training future leaders “in a day when the rule of law is under attack.” At the JCC, he takes pride in the organization’s work fighting antisemitism while serving as an inclusive space where Jews and non-Jews interact through fitness, wellness, arts and culture, camping and early childhood learning.

To Braman, being an icon “means making a meaningful difference for the Community in any way possible.”

For over 35 years, he has maintained an annual winter “mancation” with friends from high school and college to Adirondack Park in upstate New York, braving 20-degree temperatures and snow. He has never missed a year.