Annamaria Steward
Biographical Sketch
Annamaria Steward has dedicated her career to strengthening the legal profession and
serving the Washington, D.C. community. Her professional experience spans the judiciary,
private practice, legal education, corporate law, and nonprofit leadership, and she has
simultaneously devoted thousands of volunteer hours to local and national professional
and community organizations.
Annamaria is the inaugural Executive Director of The National Black Lawyers Top 100 and
Top 40 Under 40. She also serves as General Counsel of BoardSource. Her prior
leadership roles include General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of Agilian, LLC;
Director of Leadership and Strategic Development at the D.C. Bar; Associate Dean of
Students at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law;
Associate Attorney at Jack H. Olender & Associates, P.C.; and long-term law clerk to the
Chief Judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals. Across these roles, she has consistently
advanced the interests of the legal profession, law students, injured community members,
and residents of the District of Columbia.
Annamaria has held leadership positions in numerous legal organizations. After being
elected to every position within the 150-year-old Bar Association of the District of
Columbia (BADC), she became its first African American female President. She is the
third person ever elected as President of both the BADC and the D.C. Bar, the largest
unified bar in the country. As the 45th President of the D.C. Bar, who served during
Katherine Mazzaferri’s last year as CEO, Annamaria notably volunteered at every one of the
D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center’s Advice and Referral Clinics at Bread for the
City and shepherded the final construction of the new D.C. Bar headquarters.
Annamaria’s additional volunteer service includes serving as Vice President of
D.C. Refers; D.C. District Enrollment Director for Dartmouth College; Secretary and later
Board member of the D.C. Bar; Chair of the D.C. Bar Potential Leaders SubCommittee (which designed the D.C. Bar John Payton Leadership Academy); Member of
the Maryland Bar Admissions Task Force; and Chair of the BADC Young Lawyers Section.
Annamaria also created and hosted a twice-weekly DCTV television program for two years,
highlighting attorneys and their contributions to the legal and broader communities.
She currently serves on the boards of the Appleseed Network Foundation; The Barristers;
The Historical Society of the D.C. Circuit; and the BADC.
Annamaria is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where she designed her unanimously
approved undergraduate major titled International Environmental Policy & Policy
Formation, and spent semesters in Lyon, France and Nairobi, Kenya. She is also a
graduate of The George Washington University Law School.
