Marilyn Mosby Family, Net Worth, Parents, Husband, Children, Salary

Marilyn Mosby is an American politician and lawyer who has been the State’s Attorney for Baltimore since 2015.She is the youngest chief prosecutor of any major American city.

Marilyn Mosby was born on January 22, 1980, and she will be 42 years old in 2022. Mosby was born to Linda Thompson, who was 17 at the time. Her mother and father were also police officers, and her family has a two-generation history with the force, since her grandpa was one of the state’s first African-American officers. As a result of METCO, the country’s longest-running school desegregation programme, she attended Dover-Sherborn High School, an hour away from her home. She was a member of the Student Government Association and the school newspaper’s co-editor.

Her desire to practise law was motivated by the murder of her 17-year-old cousin outside her home by another 17-year-old. Her relative was slain after being wrongly recognised as a drug dealer. James appeared on the Judge Judy television show as a plaintiff in 2000, when she was a 20-year-old Tuskegee University student, suing a roommate for damaging her belongings over summer break. She won the arbitration and received a $1,700 award. She received a magna cum laude (B.A.) from Tuskegee University and a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in 2005.

Marilyn Mosby married with her husband Nick Mosby in 2005. Nick Mosby is a Maryland State Delegate. The Couple have a Two kids named Aniyah & Nylyn Mosby. They are currently living in Reservoir Hill, the neighborhood of Baltimore.

Marilyn Mosby has an estimated  Net Worth of $5 million in 2022. According to Forbes.She makes an annual worth of $247955.68 that was recorded publicly.

Mosby served as a law clerk and as Assistant State’s Attorney for Baltimore from 2005 to 2011.Before that she had held a series of legal internships in Boston while in law school.In 2013, Mosby announced plans to run for State’s Attorney for the city of Baltimore.She ran against incumbent Gregg L. Bernstein in the Democratic primary,defeating him with 55 percent of the vote.She faced no opposition in the general election.

Mosby won the general election, receiving 94 percent of the vote, defeating Independent Russell A. Neverdon Sr., who staged a write-in campaign.At the time of her election, Mosby was the youngest top prosecutor in a major US city.

Mosby was sworn into office on January 8, 2015.Soon after her first term in office had begun, Mosby announced restructuring of her office that was inspired by ideas from prosecutors’ offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.Deputy State’s Attorney Janice Bledsoe was named to oversee the new division of “criminal intelligence”.Mosby reestablished community liaison positions, which her predecessor had eliminated, to inform residents of developments in cases relevant to their neighborhood. She created the Policy and Legislative Affairs Unit to advocate for legislation to help keep residents safe and prosecute cases efficiently.

In January 2019, she announced that her office would no longer prosecute individuals for marijuana possession.She added that she would vacate nearly 5,000 marijuana possession convictions.In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she announced that her office were no longer prosecuting drug possession, prostitution, minor traffic violations and other low-level offenses in order to halt the spread of the coronavirus in Baltimore prisons.In March 2021, she said she would make that permanent, as she said that the temporary experiment had not led to more serious crimes.