Douglas Clark Hollmann is a graduate of Duke University and Columbia Law School. He has been an Assistant District Attorney in New York, a trial attorney in the US Dept of Justice in Washington, D.C., and an Assistant County Attorney in Annapolis, Maryland. He has tried nearly every criminal and civil action there is in state and federal courts in ten different states. He was in private practice in Annapolis, Maryland, for 25 years dealing with intellectual property and real estate before becoming the Administrative Hearing Officer in 2009.