John Graduated with an undergraduate degree in Political Science/Journalism from the State University of New York at Albany. He received his law degree from City University of New York and has completed a comparative summer law program in Germany. John’s experience included working for the New York State Legislature, the New York State Attorney General’s Office. He was a judicial law clerk for Maryland’s 7th Judicial Circuit, and worked at the prestigious Maryland Firm of Brault, Graham, Scott, and Brault.  He has been a partner at the Hermina Law Group for the past 20 years.  From 2003 until 2011, John also served as the Vice Chair for the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights, formerly known as, Maryland Commission on Human Relations.