Robert Harvey, Jr.Timothy MaherTammy LaffertyLee Ann BellAllison WaltonRebecca CorderoChristopher MonteBenjamin LernerApril BrownMontra MartinAnthony NavalaneyBryan Jones
Robert H. Harvey, Jr., State’s Attorney
Robert H. Harvey, Jr., was sworn in as the State’s Attorney for Calvert County on March 27, 2020. Mr. Harvey is a graduate of the University Of Maryland School Of Law. He previously served as the Deputy State’s Attorney in Prince George’s County. Recently, he maintained a private law practice in Prince Frederick where he focused on criminal defense cases. He has over 40 years of legal experience.
Mr. Harvey has been a resident of Calvert County for 36 years. He is married with 4 children, and 5 grandchildren.
Timothy J. Maher, Deputy State’s Attorney
Mr. Maher joined the Office in 2011 and is assigned to the Circuit Court where he prosecutes drug-related cases and all Drug Court cases. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2000 and the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Law in 2003. He was admitted to the Bar Association in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Prior to joining our Office, Mr. Maher worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Greene County, Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2009.
Mr. Maher was selected for the position of Deputy State’s Attorney in January of 2022.
Tammy Lafferty, Senior Assistant State’s Attorney, Child Support Division Chief
Ms. Lafferty joined the Office in 1998 where she has been Child Support Division Chief since December 1998. She spent her first three months as the Juvenile Prosecutor. She received her B.A. in Criminology from the University of Maryland in 1982 and obtained her law degree from the University Of Baltimore School Of Law in 1987. She was admitted to the Maryland Bar Association in 1987. Prior to joining the office, Ms. Lafferty was in private practice from December 1987 through August 1998. She is a past President of the Calvert County Bar Association.
Lee Ann Bell, Senior Assistant State’s Attorney
Ms. Bell joined the Office in 2019 and is assigned to the Circuit Court where she prosecutes drug-related cases. She is a graduate of the University Of Baltimore School Of Law. She began her legal career in 1997 with the Clerk of the Court for Prince George’s County working her way up to Paralegal, Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, for the Honorable William Missouri, Administrative 7th Judicial Circuit. She was admitted to the Maryland Bar in December 2009. Ms. Bell served as Assistant State’s Attorney for Prince George’s County from 2011 through 2019.
Allison S. Walton, Assistant State’s Attorney
Ms. Walton joined the Office in 2017. She currently serves in the Circuit Court handling general felony trials. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 2001 from Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University Of Maryland School Of Law in 2014. She has been a member of the Maryland Bar Association since 2015. Between her graduate studies and law school, Ms. Walton held a career in public relations and freelanced as a grant writer for various non-profit organizations. While attending law school, she served as a Courtroom Clerk and later a Judicial Assistant in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. In 2014, she worked in the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, first as a paralegal, and later became a staff attorney.
Rebecca N. Cordero, Assistant State’s Attorney
Ms. Cordero joined the Office in January 2019 and is assigned to the Circuit Court where she handles prosecution of sexual offense and child abuse cases.
Christopher J. Monte, Assistant State’s Attorney
Mr. Monte joined the Office in 2019 where he is assigned to the Circuit Court handling felony criminal matters. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Music Industry from James Madison University in 2004. He also received a Master’s Degree in Music Performance from the New England Conservatory in 2006. In 2016, after several years as a performing musician, Mr. Monte graduated from the University Of Baltimore School Of Law. Following law school, Mr. Monte clerked for the Honorable Christopher L. Panos in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. Prior to joining our Office, Mr. Monte served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Prince Georges County from 2017 to 2019. He was admitted to the Maryland Bar Association in December 2016.
Benjamin G. Lerner, Assistant State’s Attorney
Mr. Lerner joined the Office in 2019 where he is assigned to the Circuit Court handling white collar crimes, property crimes, and violent crimes. Prior to law school, he worked in the Statistics and Data Analytics Department at ESPN focusing primarily on college football and college basketball. Mr. Lerner has been a prosecutor since 2015. When he finds time away from the courtroom, he enjoys the outdoors.
April N. Brown, Assistant State’s Attorney
Ms. Brown joined the Office in August 2019, and was initially assigned to the District Court. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a B.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice with a double major in Psychology. She graduated from the Washington and Lee University School of Law in 2017 and subsequently admitted to the Maryland Bar Association. While in law school, Ms. Brown completed internships in the Office of the Public Defender, LaPlata, Maryland, the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, Rockville, Maryland, and the Roanoke County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office in Salem, Virginia. Prior to joining our Office, she served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Amy J. Bragunier, Administrative Judge for the Circuit Court of Charles County, Maryland. Ms. Brown is the Treasurer for the Southern Maryland Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association and has assisted with mock trial for high school students as a judge.
In 2022, Ms. Brown was reassigned to our Circuit Court Office, where she now handles all juvenile matters, jury trial prayers and District Court appeals.
Montra J. Martin, Assistant State’s Attorney
Ms. Martin joined the Office in October 2016. After serving the District Court Division, Ms. Martin was reassigned to the Circuit Court Division, where she prosecutes various felony crimes.
Ms. Martin graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in Political Science. She graduated from the Washington College of Law in 2015 and was subsequently admitted to the Maryland Bar Association. While in law school, Ms. Martin served as a law clerk at Jezic & Moyse, L.L.C. and The Law Offices of Bernard Grimm. In her last year of law school she was designated as a Student Attorney by the State of Maryland and, through Washington College of Law’s Prosecution Clinic, she completed a rotation at Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Prior to joining our Office, she served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable H. James West in the Circuit Court for Charles County. Ms. Martin also coached Mock Trial at Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. from 2017 to 2022.
Anthony R. Navalaney, II, Assistant State’s Attorney
Mr. Navalaney joined the Office in 2022 and serves as the Head of the Domestic Violence Unit. His caseload includes domestic violence cases prosecuted in both Circuit and District Courts.
Prior to joining our office, Mr. Navalaney worked as a senior agent with the Maryland Department of Parole and Probation, and was responsible for supervising domestic violence offenders. He went on to serve as Law Clerk to the Honorable E. Gregory Wells. More recently, Mr. Navalaney worked as an Assistant State’s Attorney for the Charles County State’s Attorney’s Office handling a variety of case assignments, to include jury trials.
Mr. Navalaney is a graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law.
Bryan J. Jones, Assistant State’s Attorney
Mr. Jones joined the office in 2022, where he was initially assigned to the District Court. In 2024 Mr. Jones joined our Domestic Violence Unit, where his caseload consists mainly of domestic violence cases prosecuted in District Court. Additionally, Mr. Jones handles general criminal and traffic dockets in the District Court as needed.
Mr. Jones is a life-long resident of Calvert County, and was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 2016. He clerked for the Honorable E. Gregory Wells, and was also in private practice for a short period of time. Most recently, Mr. Jones was an Assistant State’s Attorney with the St. Mary’s County State’s Attorney’s Office, where he handled District Court assignments, Domestic Violence cases, and some jury trials.
our support staff
- Sharon Candore, Legal Office Specialist
- Kathy Bowen, Paralegal
- Nora Bowen, Digital Evidence Coordinator
- Christine King, Victim/Witness Advocate
- Paula Shrawder, Victim/Witness Advocate
- Krysta Ireland, Victim/Witness Advocate
- Tammie Terrell, Victim/Witness Advocate
- Allison Baker, Victim/Witness Advocate
- Joan Helms, Legal Secretary II
- Christine Wells, Legal Secretary I
- Morgan Marquardt, Office Specialist I
- Joyce Jett, Office Assistant III
our investigators
- Michael Moore, Circuit Court
- Homer Rich, Domestic Violence