Here is the explanation:
She is a mental health judge!!!
MIMI RAFFEL COOPER, Associate Judge, District Court of Maryland, District 9, Harford County, since November 8, 1999.
Presiding Judge, Mental Health Court Program, 2004-. Chair, Judicial Education Committee, 2002- (member, 2001-), District Court of Maryland. Member, Administrative Judges Committee, District Court of Maryland, 2002-.
Member, Mental Health, Alcoholism and Addiction Committee, 2002-05, 2006-09, 2013-, and Problem-Solving Courts Committee, 2007- (mental health oversight committee, 2007-), Maryland Judicial Conference.
Assistant State’s Attorney, Baltimore City, 1988-95. Assistant State’s Attorney, Harford County, 1995-99.
Born in Washington, DC, March 26, 1962. Attended Atholton High School, Columbia, Maryland; University of Maryland, College Park, B.A. (political science), 1984; University of Baltimore School of Law, J.D., 1987.
Law clerk to Judge Rosalyn B. Bell, Court of Special Appeals, 1987-88. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1988. Member, Maryland State Bar Association (alternative dispute resolution section; alternative dispute resolution section council, 2003-04);
Harford County Bar Association (executive council, 2011-); Women’s Bar Association of Maryland; National Association of Women Judges. Mary Guisewhite Award, Harford County Mental Health Forum, 2004.
Here’s your root problem right here:
“Born in Washington, DC, March 26, 1962. Attended Atholton High School, Columbia, Maryland;”
Or as I know it growing up, Kolumbia. (Only good thing is Atholton was pretty old-school, at the time.)