{"id":7625,"date":"2023-11-10T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2024-12-22T19:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T14:03:33","slug":"ebony-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/ebony-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Power House: Ebony Thompson, J.D. &#8217;13"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7625\" class=\"elementor elementor-7625\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2831a16 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2831a16\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c273e9\" data-id=\"1c273e9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b598db0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b598db0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>BY CHRISTIANNA McCAUSLAND<\/p><div><figure id=\"attachment_7095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7095\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.willettassociates.com\/ubalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Thompson-816x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"878\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LARRY CANNER PHOTOGRAPHY<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><blockquote><p>BIO<\/p><ul><li>J.D. \u201913, School of Law<\/li><li>First woman and openly gay city solicitor, Baltimore City<\/li><li>Reservist, United States Marine Corps<\/li><li>Secured $1.2 million settlement with a ghost gun manufacturer<\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote><p>When F. Scott Fitzgerald said, \u201cThere are no second acts in American lives,\u201d he clearly hadn\u2019t bet on <strong>Ebony Thompson, J.D. \u201913<\/strong>. Thompson, 46, did not even graduate from law school until she was 34. Yet today she is Baltimore\u2019s first woman and first openly gay city solicitor, sworn in last January, and she has already successfully tackled some of the city\u2019s most pressing issues, including vacant housing and ghost guns.<br \/><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/ebony-thompson\/#more-7625\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Power House: Ebony Thompson, J.D. &#8217;13\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY CHRISTIANNA McCAUSLAND BIO J.D. \u201913, School of Law First woman and openly gay city solicitor, Baltimore City Reservist, United States Marine Corps Secured $1.2 million settlement with a ghost gun manufacturer When F. Scott Fitzgerald said, \u201cThere are no second acts in American lives,\u201d he clearly hadn\u2019t bet on Ebony Thompson, J.D. \u201913. 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