ALONZO ROBERTSON

Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center

Alonzo Robertson serves as a senior attorney at the Maryland Crime Victims’ Resource Center, where he has worked since January 2014 as the statewide coordinator of services to homicide victims’ families and as a lecturer on victim rights. He represents clients primarily in Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties, and chairs both the statewide and Baltimore-centric committees on homicide victim services. His practice spans civil rights, criminal, and estates and trusts law. He also trains nonprofits, states attorneys’ offices and police department personnel on the rights available to crime victims in Maryland, and serves on the Maryland State Board of Victim Services, where he chairs the Strategic Planning Committee, develops statewide strategic initiatives and advises on the treatment of victims in Active Shooter incident policies.

Robertson identifies his selection as general counsel to the U.S. House Intelligence Committee as his most significant professional accomplishment — more so, he noted, than his service on the 9/11 Commission. “I was able to look forward and into the future of national security rather than review past mistakes,” he said. In that role, he established guidelines and set standards that maintained the integrity of congressional actions.

He gives back to his community by volunteering at food pantries, mentoring students and lecturing. He is president and current general counsel of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Alpha Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; secretary of the Kappa Epsilon Lambda Educational Foundation, Inc.; national financial secretary of the Morehouse College Local and National Alumni Association; and more.

 vice chair of the Maryland State Board of Victim Services and former chair of its Strategic Initiatives; member of the Prince George’s County Public School Ethics Panel; chair of the board of trustees at Cornerstone Peaceful Bible Baptist Church; and president of the Baden Elementary School Parent and Teachers’ Association.

Robertson runs the internship program at the Maryland Crime Victims’ Resource Center, where he has served as a direct mentor and coach for several young students. Outside the office, he mentored Dr. Dimitri White through the completion of his doctorate and Ebbon Allen, for whom Robertson wrote a college recommendation letter more than 20 years ago and whom he has since watched grow into a community leader.

Robertson is a U.S. Army veteran, having served on active duty and in the reserve from 1986 to 1994. He earned Army Commendations, Achievement medals, the Distinguished Unit Citation and the U.S. Army Paratrooper medal. He was named the Intelligence Community’s Joint Duty Attorney of the Year in 2010 and was part of the Intelligence Community’s Team of the Year in 2007.