Bernice Mireku-North | |
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Member of the MarylandHouseofDelegates from the 14th district | |
Assumed office January 11, 2023 Servingwith Anne Kaiser and Pamela E. Queen | |
Appointed by | Larry Hogan |
Preceded by | Eric Luedtke |
Personal details | |
Born | October 29,1981 |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Terrill North |
Children | 1 |
Education | University of Maryland,College Park (BA) Howard University School of Law (JD) |
Occupation | Criminal defense attorney |
Website | Campaign website |
Bernice D. Mireku-North (born October 29,1981) [1] is an American politician. She is currently a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates,appointed by Governor Larry Hogan to fill the term of Eric Luedtke,who resigned on January 2,2023,to serve as the chief legislative officer of governor-elect Wes Moore. She was previously a candidate for Montgomery County State's Attorney in 2022.
Mireku-North attended Montgomery County public schools and graduated from the University of Maryland,College Park with a B.A. degree in government and politics in 2003,and the Howard University School of Law with a J.D. degree in 2006. [2] She also studied abroad at the University of Oxford in the summer of 2002,studying British and U.S. judicial systems. She also previously served as a judicial law clerk to D.C. Superior Court Associate Judge Hiram E. Puig-Lugo and Prince George's Circuit Court Judge Dwight D. Jackson. [3] [4]
Mireku-North served as the assistant state's attorney in Anne Arundel County from 2009 to 2015,before joining the Law Office of Aileen Oliver. [4] [5] Since 2019,she has run her own law firm,the North Law Group,and worked as a criminal defense attorney. [2] [3]
In 2020,Mireku-North was named co-chair of the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force organized by Montgomery County executive Marc Elrich. [6] The 41-member task force released its final report on February 5,2021,which included 87 recommendations including redirecting select 9-1-1 calls to non-law enforcement agencies,eliminating police training programs with connections to military training,and increasing recruitment at historically Black colleges and universities. [7] [8]
In June 2021,Mireku-North filed to run for Montgomery County State's Attorney,challenging incumbent state's attorney John McCarthy. [9] [10] She ran on a platform of criminal justice reform,increasing diversity in the state's attorney's office, [11] [12] and diverting minor offenders from jail. [2] Mireku-North was defeated by McCarthy in the Democratic primary on July 19,2022. [13]
In October 2022,Mireku-North applied to fill a vacancy in the Montgomery County Planning Commission. [14]
In December 2022,Mireku-North filed to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of then-Majority Leader of the Maryland House of Delegates Eric Luedtke,seeking to serve out his four-year term in the Maryland House of Delegates. [15] On January 3,2023,the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee voted to nominate Mireku-North to fill the vacancy, [16] [17] and on January 6,Governor Larry Hogan appointed her to fill the seat. [18]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | John McCarthy (incumbent) | 65,598 | 52.05 | |
Democratic | Bernice Mireku-North | 23,972 | 19.02 | |
Democratic | Perry Paylor | 18,648 | 14.80 | |
Democratic | Tom DeGonia | 17,817 | 14.14 | |
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