The Hon. Mimi R. Cooper is an associate judge for the Harford County District Court in Maryland. She was appointed to the bench by former Governor Parris Glendening on November 8, 1999.
Cooper has held assignments as the Presiding Judge of the Mental Health Court Program. She has also served on the Judicial Education Committee and the Administrative Judges Committee of the District Court of Maryland as well as the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the Maryland Judicial Council and the Harford County Community Mediation Commission.
Prior to her appointment, Cooper was an assistant state’s attorney for the Harford County Office of the State’s Attorney, a position to which she was named in 1995. Before that, she was an assistant state’s attorney for the Baltimore City Office of the State’s Attorney (1988 to 1995).
Cooper earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1984. She then completed a J.D. at the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1987.
After graduating from law school, Cooper began her legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. Rosalyn B. Bell of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. She served in that capacity until 1988.
Her memberships have included the Maryland State Bar Association, the Harford County Bar Association, the Women’s Bar Association of Maryland, and the National Association of Women Judges.
She is a recipient of the Mary Guisewhite Award from the Harford County Mental Health Forum (2004).
Cooper was born in Washington, D.C. She attended Atholton High School in Columbia, Maryland.