Deborah A. Armstrong, 240-777-7317, University of Florida, 1977; The Washington College of Law at American University, 1982. Clerked for the Honorable John J. Mitchell of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland, 1982-1983. Joined the Office of the State’s Attorney for Montgomery County, Maryland August 1983. Prosecuted criminals in the District Court, Juvenile Court and Circuit Court. Member of the Major Offenders Bureau, the third woman in ten years to be asked to this Unit. Notable cases involved in include State v. Mitchell Moore, a heinous murder trial involving the death of a day care provider, who was stabbed, raped and strangled in her White Oak apartment with the children in the same apartment. The State of Maryland sought the death penalty against the defendant. The defendant is currently serving two consecutive life sentences plus thirty years; State v. Zakaria Oweiss, a well-known obstetrician-gynecologist who bludgeoned his wife to death. This defendant is currently serving 30 years; State v. Gujuan Lee, a defendant who broke into the Potomac home where a young girl was asleep in her own bedroom and, along with his friends, raped her. This defendant is serving a life sentence; and finally State v. David Hall, in which a young girl was in the shopping center at the King’s Farm Safeway when the defendant abducted, raped and kidnapped her. This defendant is currently serving two consecutive life sentences plus eighty-five years. Appointed Acting Team Leader for the Circuit Court Felony Trial Team involving cases originating from Silver Spring, Takoma Park and Wheaton , January 20, 1999, and Team Leader for the Rockville Team as a part of Community Prosecution, July 1999 until March 2007. In March 2007, formed the Internet Crimes Against Children/Sex Offender Registry Unit prosecuting sexual predators on the internet, as well as sexual offenders failing to perform their obligations under the laws governing the Sex Offender Registry. Ms. Armstrong co-chairs the Internet Predator Project which coordinates efforts to introduce Internet Safety into the public schools; is a member of the Pre-Release Center Community Advisory Board, and of Project Safe Childhood, a team effort with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to combat online child exploitation and abuse, and has lobbied to make possession of child pornography a felony in the State of Maryland.