Donna Staton Biography and Net Worth

Donna Hill Staton serves as Independent Director of the Company. Ms. Hill Staton is an attorney and member of the Maryland Bar since 1982. She is a co-founder and principal of the strategic advice and crisis mediation consulting firm, Decision Point Strategy Group, LLC, and a founding partner of the law firm, Staton & Nolan, LLC, d/b/a Decision Point Law. Following the completion of a federal judicial clerkship with the Hon. J. Joseph Howard, Ms. Hill Staton joined the law firm of Piper & Marbury, LLC (now DLA Piper) where she was elected partner in 1993. Her commercial litigation practice included the representation of financial institutions and other businesses in state and federal courts and commercial arbitrations. After a period of service as a Maryland circuit court judge, Ms. Hill Staton was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the State of Maryland, a position she held from 1997-2006. As chief deputy, she assisted the Attorney General with supervision of an office of nearly 600 employees, a multi-million-dollar budget and responsibility for the delivery of legal advice, counsel and representation of all branches of Maryland government; enforcement of the state’s antitrust, consumer protection and securities laws; criminal investigations; and representation of the State in all criminal appellate appeals. For 14 months, beginning in December 2015, Ms. Hill Staton returned to the office as deputy attorney general in a different administration. Ms. Hill Staton is member of the George Washington University Board of Trustees. She is also a former trustee of the Client Protection Fund and has served on the Maryland State Board of Education and on the boards of the Howard County Bar Foundation, the Baltimore Education Scholarship Trust and Leadership Howard County, among others.