6 judges appointed in Prince George’s, Washington counties

Gov. Wes Moore announced Monday the appointment of six judges to district courts in Prince George’s and Washington counties.

Daniel Kyungmin Kim, Julia Simone Gagne Rupert, Jessica Lowell Garth, William Carl Isler II were appointed to the Prince George’s County District Court. Travis William Poole and Mikhaila Miriam Eugenia Mc Nicolls were named to the Washington County District Court.

“It is an honor to appoint this slate of talented legal professionals to Prince George’s County and Washington County’s District Court,” Moore stated. “Thanks to their years of experience and guided by a wealth of legal expertise, I know all of them will serve our state well.”

Prince George’s County

Kim is currently the assistant chief of the Homicide and Strategic Investigations Units at the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office. After obtaining his master’s degree in International Affairs from American University, Kim worked for a private contractor that contracted with the Department of Defense in the national security field.

While attending the University of Baltimore School of Law, Kim joined the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office and spent the next 11 years as an assistant state’s attorney.

Rupert has dedicated her career to public service. She is currently an assistant attorney General in the Criminal Appeals Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General. Before appellate litigation, Rupert spent nearly a decade working as a prosecutor in Washington, D.C., and Maryland. She served as an assistant state’s attorney in Prince George’s County.

She received her law degree, summa cum laude, from the University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law.

Garth is the chief of the Special Victims Unit at the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office. She has prosecuted cases of domestically related homicides, rape and sexual assault both of varying degrees of severity, child abuse and the possession and distribution of child pornography.

She also serves as the office’s legislative policy director and has testified before the Maryland General Assembly to advocate for her agency. Garth has also been an attorney in the special victims, guns and drugs, juvenile, grand jury and charging units. Last year, she was appointed to the City of Hyattsville’s Race and Equity Task Force, for which she contributed to the development of the city’s equity plan.

She received her law degree from the George Washington University Law School.

Isler has served as program counsel in the Office of Compliance and Enforcement for the Legal Services Corporation for the past 11 years, ensuring the proper administration of congressional grants by low-income, civil legal services providers across the United States and territories. Previously, he worked as in-house counsel at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission for 10 years.

Isler has led in various roles within the Maryland State Bar Association and is a graduate and former co-chair of its Leadership Academy. He also sat on the board of directors for Community Legal Services of Prince George’s County, the Women’s Law Center of Maryland and the Maryland Bar Foundation.

He received his law degree from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

Washington County

Poole currently serves as an assistant attorney general and recently became the supervising attorney for the Western Maryland Region, where he represents the Department of Human Services and the Washington County Department of Social Services. Alongside his primary duties, he also acts as counsel advising the board of appeals for the Washington County board of commissioners.

Poole also served as an assistant state’s attorney for Washington County and was an associate attorney at Poole & Kane P.A. He also was a former president of the Washington County Bar Association.

Poole received his law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Mc Nicolls is currently co-managing-partner at the Hagerstown-based law firm Hutchison & Mc Nicolls LLC. In addition, she serves as co-counsel for the Washington County Drug Court.

Before establishing her own firm, Mc Nicolls was a trial attorney in the District Court Division of the Washington County Public Defender’s Office. Additionally, she worked in private practice as an attorney with the Hagerstown-based Harbin Law Office.

Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Mc Nicolls possesses a strong foundation in contract and corporate governance law, an expertise she developed while working at firms while living in her home country before bringing her diverse legal talents to the United States, according to the governor’s office. She received her law degree from the Howard University School of Law.

This story has been updated.