Attorney Todd Yeary

S. Todd Yeary, Esq.

Attorney At Law

S. Todd Yeary, Ph.D., Esq.

Principal, The Yeary Firm LLC

S. Todd Yeary is Principal of The Yeary Firm, a Maryland-based litigation and government relations firm and also serves as Senior Pastor of the Douglas Memorial Community Church of Baltimore and Affiliates. Dr. Yeary is also former Chief Executive Officer of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the international human and civil rights organization founded by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson.

Dr. Yeary’s social justice work includes having served on the national board of the National Action Network from 2015-2021, past Political Action Chair for the Maryland State Conference NAACP, as co- founding principal of Community Churches for Community Development, Inc., and as the founding principal of SALT (Strategic Advocacy and Legislative Thinktank), a faith-based public policy collaborative that works on regional and national empowerment strategies impacting disaffected communities. He is often called upon to facilitate creative conversations that solve challenging public policy problems.

A civil rights attorney and public policy advocate, Dr. Yeary holds a deep belief that honest dialogue creates opportunities to form strategic partner- ships that strengthen families and communities. He exemplifies his community commitment through public participation. He is the past chair of the board of trustees of Baltimore City Community College, past vice-chair of Behavioral Health Systems Baltimore, is the current chair of the Community Relations Commission of Baltimore City, and is co-chair of the Center Steering Committee for the Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions at Michigan State University, an institutional public health research collaborative established to help in the response to the ongoing Flint water crisis.

Dr. Yeary holds a bachelor’s degree in Management from National-Louis University, a Master of Divinity Degree from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, the Graduate Certificate in African Studies from Northwestern University, the Doctor of Philosophy Degree (Ph.D.) in the area of Religion in Society and Personality from Northwestern University, and the Doctor of Law (JD) from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Dr. Yeary is a member of the 2012 class of the Board of Preachers of the Martin Luther King, Jr. College of Preachers and Laity of Morehouse College.