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| Bethamy N. Beam, Esq. |
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Before beginning her career in the law, Ms. Beam was a Human Health Risk Analyst with Lockheed Martin at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She was selected to represent the Laboratory on a two-year off-site assignment to Washington, D.C., where she served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Programs. During her five-year tenure as a consultant to the DOE, she worked on various risk assessment-related initiatives used by the DOE for making risk-based management decisions regarding the extent and method of cleaning up its numerous hazardous waste sites throughout the nation.
Originally from Tennessee, Ms. Beam graduated with High Honors from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and was selected for membership in the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society. After receiving her Bachelors Degree in English, she was awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship, which enabled her to teach Freshman Composition courses at the University while working on her Masters Degree in English.
Ms. Beam later attended the University of Maryland School of Law where she graduated with Honors. She was selected to serve as an Associate Editor on the Maryland Law Review, was selected to be a Teaching Assistant to the Associate Dean, and was also named a Writing Fellow.
Ms. Beam is admitted to practice in both federal and state courts in Maryland, West Virginia, and Tennessee. She has appeared in Maryland District and Circuit Courts and has argued before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.
Ms. Beam is very active in both her local and state Bar Associations. At the local level, she serves as the Immediate Past President of the Bar Association of Frederick County, Maryland and has served on the Executive Committee for six years. She also served as Chair of the Charity Art Auction Committee for four years. In 2007, she received the James McSherry Memorial Award in recognition of her outstanding service to the Bar.
At the state level, she serves on the Board of Governors of the Maryland State Bar Association and recently served on the Executive Committee of the Board. She is a member of the Local and Specialty Bar Liaison Committee and currently serves as the liaison between the Board of Governors and the Elder Law Committee and the Special Committee on Travel.
In 2009, Ms. Beam was named as a Fellow in the Maryland Bar Foundation and was also the recipient of one of five scholarships awarded on a national basis to attend the American Bar Association's Bar Leadership Institute in Chicago, IL. In 2005, she was featured in Frederick Magazine's edition of "Lawyers Who Give A Damn."
In addition, Ms. Beam serves on the Peer Review Committee for Maryland's Attorney Grievance Commission, the organization responsible for prosecuting lawyer disciplinary matters. She was also appointed to serve on the Maryland Judicial Nominating Commission for District 10, which interviews, screens, and selects applicants for judicial appointment by Governor Martin O'Malley.
Ms. Beam is also active in various community and civic organizations, including the Way Station, Inc., where she serves on the Executive Board and as the Chair of the Property Committee, the YMCA of Frederick County, where she serves on the Endowment Committee, and the Frederick Memorial Hospital, where she serves on the Planned Gifts Committee.
Since becoming an attorney, her publications include: Restricting the Scope of Negligent Entrustment by Exempting Donors and Sellers from Liability, 57 Md. L. Rev. 988 (1998), and Is There Room for Ethics in Today’s Multi-Disciplinary, Technology Age Law Practice?, Md. Bar Journal, Nov./Dec. 2000, 17-21, which she co-authored with Thomas E. Lynch, III, Esquire.
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