Kimberly M. Davis is an Associate Judge on the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore County, District 8. She was appointed on December 28, 2012. Judge Davis earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Jurisprudence from the University of Baltimore in 1997. She earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Maine School of Law in 2000. She was admitted to the Maryland Bar in December 2000.
Judge Davis served as law clerk for the Honorable Roger W. Brown, Sr., Associate Judge for the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, from 2000 to 2001. She was an Assistant Public Defender in Baltimore City from 2001 to 2004. Judge Davis was a solo practitioner from 2004 to 2012. She founded the Law Offices of Kimberly M. Thomas, LLC, where she litigated criminal, civil and domestic matters.
Judge Davis presides over criminal, civil, and domestic violence matters. She is the managing judge for the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore County’s Problem-Solving Court Program, which is comprised of the Adult Recovery Court and the Mental Health Court. Judge Davis also presides of the Mental Health/Competency Docket.
Judge Davis currently serves as the Chair of the Judicial Council’s Specialty Courts and Dockets Committee and served as a member of the Problem-Solving Courts Subcommittee from 2020 to 2021. She was a member of the Maryland Judiciary Committee on Equal Justice, Community Outreach Subcommittee from 2020 to 2022. She was a member of the Domestic Violence and Peace Order Subcommittee from 2015 to 2019 and served as the Vice-Chair of the Domestic Violence and Peace Order Subcommittee from 2016 to 2019.