Biography
Anne Colt Leitess is the Elected State’s Attorney for Anne Arundel County since 2018 serving her second term. She began her career in Baltimore City in 1988 and moved to Anne Arundel County where she served as an Assistant State’s Attorney from 1990-2013.
She is a graduate of University of Baltimore Law School and has spent most of her career focused on prosecuting homicides and violent crime, child homicide and sexual assault cases.
As State’s Attorney, Anne oversees an office of 62 attorneys plus 84 support staff as well as a $16 million dollar budget. Anne Arundel is the 4th largest jurisdiction in the state.
Currently, Anne is the lead attorney in two homicides: the 2024 murder of the estranged wife of a doctor in Edgewater and the 2023 Mass Shooting in Annapolis Maryland where three were murdered and 3 others injured. The case includes hate crime charges.
From 2019 to 2021 she served as the lead prosecutor in the Capital Gazette mass shooting murder case against Jarrod Ramos—who plead Not Criminally Responsible for the crime. He was found Criminally Responsible by a jury and sentenced to 5 Life without Parole sentences.
In 2021, Anne successfully prosecuted the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang for ordering the murder of a rival gang elder.
In 2013, she successfully convicted two people in the contract murder case of Glen Burnie dentist, Dr. Albert Ro.
In 1998, with the help of the FBI and Quantico scientists, she successfully introduced Mitochondrial DNA evidence for the first time in Maryland, helping secure a conviction and two life sentences for the brutal murder of two attorneys who were killed in their Annapolis home.
Anne serves on the State Board of Victims Services in Maryland and is the former president of the Anne Arundel County Bar Association.
Married for 33 years to husband Steve, she has three adult sons.