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Dean Betts, Jr., Esquire was born in Delaware and attended college at Virginia Tech, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987. He then attended the University of Maryland School of Law and received his Juris Doctor degree with honors in the spring of 1990. He was admitted to the Delaware Bar on December 13, 1990 and is also a member of the Maryland Bar, the Bar of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the Bar for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. After law school, Mr. Betts served as a judicial law clerk for the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in and for Sussex County and then became a Deputy Attorney General for the State of Delaware in October 1991. During his first three years in the Attorney General's office, Mr. Betts was assigned to the civil division representing such state agencies as the Department of Public Safety, Department of Agriculture, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, the Gaming Control Board, the Foster Care Review Board, the Council on Real Estate Appraisers, and other state departments, boards and agencies. In 1994, Mr. Betts transferred to the criminal division of the Attorney General's office where he prosecuted in all of the trial Courts of the State of Delaware including the Superior Court, Court of Common Pleas, Family Court, and Justice of the Peace Court and has argued before the Delaware Supreme Court. During this time, Mr. Betts successfully prosecuted all types of criminal cases from first-degree murder to simple traffic offenses. In 1997, Mr. Betts joined the law firm of Betts & Beauregard, P.A. in Georgetown, Delaware, a firm established by his father and law partner, A. Dean Betts, Esquire, in 1953. Upon the investiture of Mr. Betts' sister, the Honorable Rosemary Betts Beauregard, to the bench of the Court of Common Pleas in 1999, the firm became known as Betts & Betts, P.A. The firm is now called The Betts Law Firm, P.A.