About me
KAREN HESS ROHRBAUGH has been an attorney for 18 years. She graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law, with honors, after obtaining a Bachelor of Science in family studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. After beginning her career in private practice handling primarily family law cases, she joined the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland in 2013, where she first represented the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange. In January 2015, Ms. Rohrbaugh began representing the Department of Human Services (“DHS”) and has since served as the Supervising Attorney for Child Support, the Deputy Counsel for Litigation, and Senior Counsel for Child in Need of Assistance and Termination of Parental Rights Appellate Litigation.
Ms. Rohrbaugh has written more than 40 appellate briefs on behalf of DHS and has represented the agency in seven reported decisions. In 2019, she received the Office of the Attorney General’s Jennifer Lauterbach Robbins Award for special achievements in human services and excellence in public service and the law.
Ms. Rohrbaugh served as a member of the Maryland Child Support Guidelines Advisory Committee during its last quadrennial review and chaired the deviations subcommittee. She also testified before the Maryland General Assembly in support of the legislation recommended by the Committee. Ms. Rohrbaugh has delivered presentations at the Office of Administrative Hearings, the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the Maryland Joint Child Support Council, and the American University Washington College of Law. She has also spoken at the Administrative Office of the Courts’ Help Center Provider Conference and the Judicial College’s Family Law University Program, and she has served as a faculty member for the Family Law University Update program for the past two years.
