Judy A. Carbone

Judy A. Carbone, of Swanton, MD, is proud and honored to have been appointed to the Maryland Commission for Women in November 2024. She is an active community advocate and activist for women’s issues. She is currently the President of AAUW-Garrett Branch; Co-Vice President of Public Policy for AAUW-Maryland with emphasis on the Equal Rights Amendment; and the Chair of the Garrett County Democratic Central Committee.

A proud resident of Garrett County, Maryland, for more than 25 years, Judy is the Garrett County Area Representative for ASSE International Student Exchange Programs and has held numerous positions throughout her career focusing on helping others including Field Interviewer on the Maryland COVID Contact Tracing Project and with the Garrett County Department of Health; Volunteer Coordinator at HART for Animals; Director of Academic Advising and Success and Career Services Coordinator at Garrett College; and student services administrator at George Mason University, the University of Maryland at College Park, and Maryville University of Saint Louis. Highlights of Carbone’s extensive community involvement includes serving as a trained moderator for Braver Angels (a national organization working to depolarize our political conversations) and being a graduate of Leadership Garrett County (2017) and Emerge Maryland (2021). In 2021, Judy was inducted into the Garrett County Women’s Hall of Fame; in 2019 and again in 2023, she was named one of The Daily Record’s Maryland Top 100 Women; and in 2019, she was recognized as AAUW-Maryland’s Woman of Distinction. She is the Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party Rural Communities Committee and ran for Garrett County Commissioner in 2018 and again in 2022.

Judy currently sits on the board of directors of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, the Mountain Maryland Alliance for Reproductive Freedom, and the Maryland Comptroller’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Task Force. Judy has previously served on several local Board of Directors including the Garrett Workforce Housing Alliance, Garrett Lakes Arts Festival, Engage Mountain Maryland, and Mountain Laurel Medical Center. Judy earned a Master of Education with an emphasis in General Counseling from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from The George Washington University.

She and her husband Ken share their Deep Creek Lake home with two dogs who have their humans wrapped around their little paws.