Stenise LaNez Rolle
Judicial
Jurisdiction Prince George’s County (7)
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan appointed Stenise Lanez Rolle as a judge of Prince George’s County Circuit Court in Maryland. She was also sworn in on January 17, 2023.
Throughout her legal career, Rolle has worked as a litigator, an administrator of judicial education, and a magistrate. Her legal career began in 2002 at Parks & Crump, LLC, a boutique law firm in Tallahassee, Florida. She left in 2006 to form her solo practice while working as an independent contractor for Gary Roberts and Associates, LLC.
Judge Rolle is a graduate of Florida A&M University where she received a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Master’s of Applied Social Sciences with a concentration in Public Administration. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law.
Judge Rolle embarked on her legal journey as a single parent of a 6-week-old, navigating the challenges of parenthood and law school simultaneously. This
experience instilled in her the values of hard work, compassion, and steadfast moral character.
Her legal career began at a small law firm in Tallahassee,
Florida where she litigated complex wrongful death, personal injury, and premises liability cases. Upon relocating to the DMV, she began the private
practice of law, and served as the Director of Graduate Student Legal Aid, at the University of Maryland College Park (UMD). She also planned and taught numerous legal workshops that provided information and advice to pro se litigants.
She currently serves on the Judicial Conference Planning Committee, in addition to serving as the judge liaison for the countywide high school mock trial program; allowing her to work with some of Prince George’s County’s best and brightest students. She has also enjoyed teaching and
coordinating a judicial education course at the Judicial College of Maryland, working with the Maryland Judiciary’s Equal Justice Committee as a member of the Access and Fairness Subcommittee, and serving on the Workgroup to Study Mandatory Continuing Education (MCLE) in Maryland.
Judge Rolle is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, an organization committed to scholarship, sisterhood, and service.