After graduating from New York University, Ms. Rocco attended law school at the University of Baltimore, School Of Law, while working at several law firms and the Public Defender’s Office, where in later years she also worked in the mental health division. She was first licensed to practice law in Maryland in 1977; and thereafter became licensed in the District of Columbia and California, where she is no longer engaged in the practice of law, as she has chosen to focus her practice in her home state of Maryland.