Deborah Boardman

Deborah Lynn Boardman (born 1974) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and former United States magistrate judge of the same court. Early life and education Boardman was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, and grew up in Frederick, Maryland. Boardman has been described as being of Palestinian descent on her mother's side. She received her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Villanova University in 1996 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2000. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Amman, Jordan. Legal career