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Judge Barbera grew up in the Hampden section of Baltimore, where she walked to school, frequented “the Avenue,” and worked at the Enoch Pratt Free Library. After college, she taught for nine years in Baltimore City public schools. For the last four of those years, she attended law school at night, while married with two small children. Following law school, her legal career went from law clerk, to assistant attorney general, to governor’s legal counsel, to appellate judge, and ultimately to Chief Judge of Maryland’s highest court.