Ms. Evans grew up in Aberdeen, Maryland, graduating from Aberdeen High School.  She worked in the legal department of Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Company while attending the Weekend College of Notre Dame, where she graduated magna cum laude.  She then graduated with honors from the University of Baltimore Law School.  She was the recipient of the Law Faculty Award, and named to the Heuisler Honor Society (top ten percent) and Law Review.  Ms. Evans was named one of the Daily Record’s Top 100 Women in 2008 and 2018.  She was the recipient of the Athena Award in 2016 and received the Harford County Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame Award in 2004.  She is a past member of the Maryland Transportation Authority, and a past president of the Chesapeake Professional Women’s Network, Harford County Chamber of Commerce, and Bel Air Rotary Club where she remains an active member.  Carolyn presently serves on the Board of Directors of Harford Bank,  and the Rockfield Foundation. She is a trustee of the Maryland Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, where she serves as Board President.  Carolyn and her husband Tom live in Fallston where their children graduated from Fallston High School.

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Professional Organizations/Bar Memberships

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• Maryland Court of Appeals, December 1992

• U.S. Federal District Court, District of Maryland, March 1993

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, September, 2012

• U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland

• Maryland Bar Association, 1992

• Harford County Bar Association, 1992

• Women’s Bar Association, 1992

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Civil and Community Organizations

 

Harford Bank

          Board of Directors, June 2000 to present

          Served or serving on Audit, Loan and Executive Committees

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Bel Air Rotary Club, 1999 to present

          2004 – President

          2004 – Recipient, Paul Harris Award

 

Chesapeake Professional Women’s Network, Inc., 1996 - present

          Board of Directors, 1997 to 2003, 2009 to 2017

          President, July, 2013 to June 2015

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Harford Community College Foundation Board

           Member, September, 2010 to 2019

           Member, Executive Committee, February, 2014 to 2019

 

Maryland Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Inc., Member, Board of Trustees, January 2014 to present

            Member, Board of Trustees, January 2014 - present

            Board President - 2021 to present

            Dancing for the Arts Gala Co-Chair – 2014 to 2020

 

Rockfield Foundation

            Board Member 

            Secretary, 2019 to present

 

Practice Areas

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• Bankruptcy

• Business and personal

• Commercial law

• Contracts

• Corporate

• Employment

• Estates administration

• General litigation

• General practice

• Landlord tenant

• Personal injury

• Trademarks

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Education 

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         UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW, Baltimore, Maryland.

          Juris Doctor, May 1992. G.P.A. 3.496.  Cum Laude

          Law Faculty Award, 1992

          Heuisler Honor Society (Top Ten Percent of Class)

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Member, University of Baltimore Law Review (1991-1992), published “Constitutional Law – Ex Post Facto – Was Adding the Requirement of Gubernatorial Approval of Parole to the Patuxent Institution’s Parole Procedures and Reinstating Original Sentence a Violation of the Prohibition Against Ex Post Facto Laws?”, 21 U. Balt. L. Rev. 341 (1992).

 

THE COLLEGE OF NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND, Baltimore, Maryland. 

          Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business, emphasis in Corporate Finance

          May 1989.  G.P.A. 3.82, Magna Cum Laude