Evelyn O. A. Darden

Biography

Evelyn O. A. Darden is an American civil rights lawyer and former prosecutor who served as an assistant attorney general for the State of Maryland. She was one of the first African American women to hold that position and later established Addison-Darden, the first Black mother-son law firm in Maryland. Darden received the 2003 Maryland Trial Lawyer of the Year Award for her role in a class-action juvenile abuse lawsuit against the state and was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 2020.

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