Beverly Sherman Nash has served as an Administrative Law Judge in the District of Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings since August of 2004. Judge Nash was a Judge for the Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings from 1997 to August 2004.

From 1979 to 1997, Judge Nash worked as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, conducting complex consumer protection and environmental litigation, and as an Assistant United States Attorney heading a financial unit with the US Attorney’s Office for the southern district of New York in New York City. She served as an attorney advisor for the Administrative Office of the US Courts from 1978-1979. Judge Nash was in private practice working for the law firm of Sachs, Greenebaum & Tayler, from 1975-1978. She clerked for the DC Court of Appeals during 1974-1975. She is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia, various United States District and Appellate Courts and the US Supreme Court.

Judge Nash received a Bachelor of Arts with honors in Political Science from the University of Michigan where she was elected to Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honorary and awarded a place in the Michigan-Wisconsin junior year aboard program for 1966-67. She earned her JD with honors from George Washington University Law School in 1974. She was on the Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif.

Judge Nash is active in the National Association of Women Judges, the National Association of Administrative Law Judges, the Anne Arundel County Bar and Maryland Women’s Bar Associations, and has spoken on administrative law issues at association conferences for each of these organizations. She is also a volunteer mediator in her local community mediation center.