Magistrate Elizabeth Case, Circuit Court for Howard County

Magistrate Elizabeth Case graduated with honors from the University of Maryland Francis Carey School of Law in 1986. After graduating from law school, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Marshall A. Levin at the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. For most of her

career, she was a family law practitioner. She became a Magistrate for the Circuit Court for Howard County in 2015. Magistrate Case was trained as a mediator in 1997 and had an active family law mediation practice. She was also involved in the practice of collaborative law, holding offices with the Howard County Collaborative Law Group.

Magistrate Case has been a trainer for multiple seminars on collaborative law, mediation, parenting plans, and best practices for best interest attorneys for children. For many years, Magistrate Case participated in the National Family Resiliency Center parenting seminars addressing the topic of why a parent should mediate and not litigate his or her family law matter. Currently, she is a Magistrate primarily hearing family law cases. She also conducts settlement conferences for family law cases. Magistrate Case is a former member of the Maryland Judiciary ADR Committee and the ADR Research and Grants Subcommittee. She is a member of the Howard County Bar Association and the Women’s Bar Association as well as AFCC.