SEED School of Maryland announced additions to their Board of Trustees to include a new chairman in addition to two new members. Steve Fedder, Attorney at Fedder & Janofsky, LLC, will serve as SEED’s new Chairman of the Board of Trustees and new Board members include Monique Booker, Founding Partner at SB & Company, LLC and Brian P. Field, Partner at Venable LLP. They join a prestigious group of SEED Board of Trustees whose goals are to further the mission of the School and provide guidance, expertise, counseling and leadership. For more information about SEED School of Maryland, visit The SEED School of Maryland (seedschoolmd.org).
Steven K. Fedder, with more than 40 years of practice, is known as a trial lawyer who readily understands, interprets and clarifies complex business and financial disputes. Steve is a member of Fedder & Janofsky LLC, a litigation and employment boutique located in Maryland and Washington, DC. He believes his communication with clients, opposing counsel, and other decision-makers is the key to developing persuasive arguments. His practice covers a wide variety of areas, including trial and appellate work, complex business litigation, franchise and dealership disputes, and partnership/corporate disputes. He is admitted to the Maryland and District of Columbia Bars. Previously he was a partner at DLA Piper and Weinberg & Green.
Currently, Steve serves as the Chair of the Board for the SEED School of Maryland. He has previously served as Chair of the Board of the Maryland Food Bank and on many other non-profit boards over the years. Steve is a proud graduate of UMBC and the University of Baltimore Law School. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Maryland Bar Foundation, and Litigation Counsel of America, and is recognized in Best Lawyers (Tier One – Franchise Law) and Maryland Super Lawyers. He was selected in 2017 by The Daily Record as a Leadership in Law honoree.
Ms. Booker is a founding partner at SB & Company, LLC and has over 20 years of experience in public accounting. She is a former senior manager with Arthur Anderson, LLP’s Baltimore Practice where she performed audits for not-for-profit entities, colleges and universities, state and local government, commercial organizations and public companies throughout the country. At SB & Company, LLC, Monique is in charge of audit quality and implementation of new auditing standards, and she serves as the firm’s Nonprofit Industry Leader leading the charge to provide technical guidance. She is affiliated with a number of Maryland nonprofits as well as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Not-for-Profit Section, the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants, The Institute of Internal Auditors, and the National Grants Management Association.
Brian P. Field, member of the SEED School of Maryland Board of Trustees and Chair of the SEED MD Governance Committee, is a partner at Venable LLP. At Venable, Brian concentrates on a wide range of corporate law matters including corporate governance, securities transactions, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. He focuses particularly on Maryland corporation law.
He has served as independent counsel to several special committees of boards of directors in their consideration and negotiation of strategic alternatives and change of control transitions. He has counseled to several REITs in at-the-market offerings and in the spin-offs of multiple publicly traded companies.. Brian previously taught 8th grade in Frederick County Public Schools. The SEED School of Maryland is excited to welcome Brian to the Board. We are certain that his vast experience will be a great asset to our mission.
The SEED School of Maryland (SEED Maryland) is Maryland’s first and only public, college-preparatory boarding school, offering an extraordinary learning and living experience in preparation for college and beyond. SEED Maryland is in Southwest Baltimore and serves students who could most benefit from a 24-hour learning environment. SEED Maryland opened in 2008 and graduated its first class in 2015. It currently serves 400 students in grades 6 through 12. For more information, go to https://www.seedschoolmd.org/
