Bruce D. Edwards, Esquire currently serves as Associate General Counsel handling complex and difficult matters in the District of Columbia’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) on behalf of the Department of Youth and Rehabilitative Services (DYRS) and the alleged delinquent youth serviced by the agency. Bruce is also a former Assistant Attorney General with the Maryland Office of the Attorney General where he served as the Legal Counsel for the Caroline County Department of Social Services. Previously, Bruce served the Prince George’s County (MD) community while acting as: the Supervising Attorney & President with Advocates For Justice, Inc.; the Senior Panel Attorney with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender; as well as the Supervising Attorney for the Wakefield Law Firm. Mr. Edwards attended Lafayette College where he received Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Government & Law and Africana Studies in 2001. In 2004, he graduated from New England School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, where he earned his Juris Doctorate degree. In 2007, Mr. Edwards received a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in Law and Government with a concentration in Civil Rights from American University-Washington College of Law.

Mr. Edwards is affiliated with the Peer Panel Review Committee through the Maryland Attorney Grievance Committee, the Homeless Persons Representation Project, and currently serves as the President of the Executive Board of Directors for the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) of Prince George’s County. Mr. Edwards previously served (2013-2019) on the DMC and Youth subcommittees as a member of the State Advisory Group on Juvenile Justice through the Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention.

In February 2019, Mr. Edwards testified before the Maryland General Assembly on behalf of House Bill 167 which sought to expand the rights of fathers under Maryland’s Safe Haven Baby Law. Further, in October 2019, the Prince George’s County Executive Office appointed Mr. Edwards as a Commissioner for the Prince George’s County Commission on Fathers, Men and Boys. Mr. Edwards currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Commission. Mr. Edwards is also the author of a fatherhood empowerment book entitled “The 14 Virtues of the Good Father: Navigational Tools for the Father Inside of Every Man” (www.fatherhoodvirtues.com).

Additionally, Mr. Edwards is an Adjunct Professor with Anne Arundel Community College and teaches courses on Life Skills to inmate students at the Dorsey Run Correctional Institute in Jessup, MD. Mr. Edwards is a proud member of the Bowie-Mitchellville Alumni Chapter (BMAC) of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated and serves as the Chair and Facilitator of BMAC’s Kappa League. Mr. Edwards also serves as a Deacon at The City of Praise Family Ministries in Landover, Maryland.

Mr. Edwards is the recipient of several public service and scholastic awards including: The Africana Studies Scholar Award (Lafayette College-2001); Community Service Volunteer Award (Lafayette College-2001); The Race & the Law Scholastic Award (New England Law-2004); Anna E. Hirsch Community Service Award (New England Law-2004); J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association Community Service Award for Prince George’s County, MD (2018); Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. (BMAC) – Charles E. Exum Humanitarian Award (2019) and 3x Brother of the Year Award (2020 – 2022); and the Governor’s Citation (Maryland) for Public Service on behalf of the State Advisory Group for Juvenile Justice (2019).