About me
Mary O'Donnell was appointed Magistrate in June 2020. Until Magistrate O’Donnell’s appointment, she had been serving as the Assistant County Attorney for Talbot County. She has extensive experience in CINA, custody, visitation, child support, delinquency, truancy, domestic violence and child abuse cases. She leads the Dorchester Circuit Court's National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Implementation Sites Team, one of 26 such courts across the nation working to implement best practices in child welfare cases.. For fourteen years, she served as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Alexandria, Virginia specializing in child welfare cases. Other notable accomplishments include: assisted with establishing and staffing a child welfare family drug treatment court; helped with the creation and implementation of Alexandria’s child advocacy center; a qualified GAL for nineteen years; liaison to the Board of Directors for the Center for Alexandria’s Children; and regularly assisted in training CASA volunteers.
