Margary Rogers has been a court reporter for 22 years and is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in court reporting and an Associate of Science degree as a legal assistant with a concentration in psychology. She is also a graduate of the Management Training Program at the Washington, D.C., Superior Court. Rogers holds the nationally recognized professional certifications of Registered Professional Reporter (RPR) and Certified Reporting Instructor (CRI).
At the national level, Rogers serves as Chair of NCRA’s Membership Committee, is active in the Association’s student mentoring program, and is a contributor to the Journal of Court Reporting (JCR), the official publication of NCRA. She is a past member of the Association’s Peers Helping Peers Committee and is credited with creating the Facebook group “Stenographers Leveling up with Certification,” to encourage and promote court reporters nationwide to obtain court reporting certifications. She has presented numerous times at the national and state levels. She is also a student sponsor, a National Court Reporters Foundation (NCRF) donor, and a member of the NCRF Angels Gatherer Committee.
Rogers has served in numerous leadership positions for the Maryland Court Reporters Association, including as a director, secretary, president-elect, and president of MCRA. She has also taught court reporting at Anne Arundel Community College in Hanover, Md., Howard University Continuing Education Department in Silver Spring, Md., and in Northern Virginia.
In addition to showcasing the stenographic court reporting and captioning profession at local career fairs, she has hosted and organized numerous other events including a “High Tea for High Achievers” for court reporting students attending the 2019 NCRA Conference held in Denver, Colo.
Rogers has organized a number of virtual transcribe-a-thons in conjunction with the Smithsonian Transcription Center and staff from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to help with the museum’s ongoing effort to transcribe more than 1.5 million original documents from the post–Civil War era that are housed in the Freedmen’s Bureau Records. The documents include letters from enslaved people from centuries ago.
She is also credited with organizing volunteers to write Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in steno in honor of Black History Month in 2022, spearheading the launch of a month-long membership campaign as chair of NCRA’s Membership Committee, and starting the “Steno Fitness Challenge,” which challenges members to exercise at least 15 minutes per day to get fit before NCRA’s annual Conference & Expo.
As creator of the POP (Promoting Our Profession) movement/initiatives, Rogers focuses on partnering and collaborating with organizations, communities, and schools to serve them by giving back while promoting and marketing the skill and career of stenography.