PEOPLE ON THE MOVE- Kendra Young Ausby Appointed to Maryland Appellate Court
The longtime Baltimore judge brings experience in public defense, state counsel and judicial leadership.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Gov. Wes Moore announced the appointment of Judge Kendra Young Ausby to an at-large seat on the Appellate Court of Maryland on Sept. 2.
“It is an honor to appoint Judge Kendra Young Ausby to the Appellate Court of Maryland,” Moore said.
Ausby has served on Baltimore City’s Circuit Court since 2010, presiding over thousands of cases involving medical malpractice, child custody, juvenile delinquency and constitutional criminal procedure. She also led the Family/Domestic Division and handled special assignments involving Maryland’s Child Victims Act.
In 2024, she served on the appellate court as an associate judge by special assignment.
Before joining the bench, Ausby worked as an assistant public defender, an assistant attorney general advising the Department of Juvenile Services and principal counsel for the attorney general’s Courts and Judicial Affairs Division.
A Baltimore native, Ausby earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1993 and a law degree from the University of Baltimore in 1997. She joined the Maryland Bar in 1998.
Her professional leadership includes serving as president of the Monumental City Bar Association from 2005 to 2006 and on the judiciary’s Judicial Ethics Committee from 2013 to 2020. Her affiliations have also included the Alliance of Black Women Attorneys.
Ausby received the attorney general’s Public Service Award in 2006 and The Daily Record’s Maryland Leadership in Law Award in 2018.by brings to the opportunity years spent working with the people, procedures and disputes that give the law its everyday meaning.
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