Mary Roby Sanders

For clients in the Towson, Maryland, and greater Baltimore metropolitan area, Mary Roby Sanders is a valuable advocate when dealing with family law matters. As partner at Turnbull, Nicholson & Sanders, P.A., Ms. Sanders handles issues of divorce,  marital property, prenuptial agreements, custody and visitation and child support. For her stellar work with previous clients, The Daily Record named her one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 2015 and again in 2020. 

Through her service and dedication to the Maryland legal community, Ms. Sanders was given the Beverly A. Groner Family Law Award. In 2012, the Baltimore County Bar Association awarded her the J. Earle Plumhoff Professionalism Award. A former co-chair of the Maryland State Bar Association’s Pro Bono Task Force, Ms. Sanders also contributed to the Bench Book on Family Law and is a mediator for the Baltimore City Circuit Court.

Ms. Sanders has been named on two occassions one of Maryland's Topp 100 Women and in 2023, she was named as one of the Top Ten attorneys in the state by Super Lawyers.  

Ms. Sanders was honored with the National professionalism award by the AMerican Acadamey of Matrimonial Lawyers in 2022.  

At the University of Maryland, Ms. Sanders earned both her Bachelor of Arts and her Juris Doctor. She spent almost 15 years as chair of the Family & Juvenile Law Section for the Maryland State Bar Association and was also the chairperson of the Baltimore County Bar Association’s family law committee. She developed the Family & Juvenile Law Section’s mentoring program and is member of Women’s Bar Association. Ms. Sanders is a member of the Baltimore City Bar Association and has worked in the Young Lawyers division and the family law committee for the organization.

For her high ethical standards and long list of successful results, Ms. Sanders holds the highest peer rating possible of AV Preeminent* from Martindale-Hubbell. Throughout a distinguished legal career, she has maintained the highest standards of professionalism and high-quality legal services.

* AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.