Mr. Smith's experience in the justice system has spanned over 24 years, where he has served as a Police Officer, prosecutor and defense attorney.

Mr. Smith pursued his undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He served as a Teaching Assistant within the University's Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology before graduating in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in Law Enforcement.

Mr. Smith joined the Ocean City, Maryland Police Department in 1983, and continued his employment with the Department as a Police Officer after graduating from UMCP. He thereafter joined the Howard County Police Department as a Police Officer, where he obtained several technical certifications and served as a Field Training Officer teaching new officers in police techniques and procedures. Mr. Smith entered the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1989, and worked simultaneously as a police officer and law student intern with the Office of the State's Attorney for Howard County before leaving the Howard County Police Department in 1990.

Mr. Smith next joined the Office of the State's Attorney for Baltimore County and worked in that office as a salaried Law Clerk until 1993, when, after graduation from law school, he joined the Office of the State's Attorney for Carroll County as an Assistant State's Attorney. He was later promoted to the position of Senior Assistant State's Attorney. Mr. Smith prosecuted a wide variety of crimes at all levels of the adult and juvenile court system, ranging from Driving Under the Influence to Murder.

Mr. Smith left public service to enter private practice in 1997. He formed his own law firm in 1999, and has engaged extensively in civil and criminal trial practice since that time. He has represented clients in a wide range of cases, including those involving child custody, visitation, custody, and divorce. He has been appointed regularly by the Circuit Court for Carroll County to represent children and disabled adults in custody and guardianship proceedings. Mr. Smith's experience also includes general civil litigation, and of course, the defense of persons who have been charged with a wide variety of crimes in the Juvenile and adult courts throughout the State of Maryland. Additionally, he has represented numerous clients before the Office of Administrative Hearings in MVA and other administrative matters.

A number of state, local, and national law enforcement and community agencies have called upon Mr. Smith over the years to assist them as an instructor at police academies, during in service training, and during other seminars. Organizations for which Smith has rendered instruction have included the Maryland State Police, the Baltimore County Police Department, the Howard County Police Department, the Carroll County Sheriff's Department, MAGLOCLEN, the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence, and the National Rifle Association.

Mr. Smith continues to serve in the community as well. He has, in the past, been twice-elected President of the Montpelier Village Condominium Association. He also served as a Trustee and Administrative Board member at the Emory United Methodist Church. Mr. Smith believes strongly in the value of competitive athletics in the molding of his own children and of those in the community. He continues to serve as a youth sports coach and assistant coach, having taught a wide variety of sports including soccer, basketball, football, Tee-ball and baseball.