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First African American male (Maryland Court of Appeals): Harry A. Cole (1949) in 1977 [14] First African American male (chief judge of any Maryland court): Michael Waring Lee in 1984 [15] [16] [17] First African American male (Chief Judge; Maryland Court of Appeals): Robert M. Bell (1969) in 1996 [18] First Hispanic American male: Ricardo Zwaig ...
Seal as the Court of Appeals.. As the highest tribunal in Maryland, the Court of Appeals was created by Article 56 of the Maryland Constitution of 1776.The Court was to be "composed of persons of integrity and sound judgment in the law, whose judgment shall be final and conclusive in all cases of appeal, from the general court, court of chancery, and court of admiralty".
The Appellate Court of Maryland is the intermediate appellate court for the U.S. state of Maryland. The Appellate Court of Maryland was created in 1966 in response to the rapidly growing caseload in the Supreme Court of Maryland. Like the state's highest court, the tribunal meets in the Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal Building in the state ...
The Maryland State Supreme Court has posthumously admitted Edward Garrison Draper to the bar, making him the state’s first Black lawyer. The court held a special session to honor Draper on ...
Courts of Maryland include: Maryland judicial circuit map State courts of Maryland. Supreme Court of Maryland [1] Appellate Court of Maryland [2] Maryland Circuit Courts (8 judicial circuits) [3] Maryland District Courts (34 locations in 12 judicial districts) [4] Federal courts located in Maryland. United States District Court for the District ...
In 1975, Bell was appointed to the District Court of Maryland, District 1, in Baltimore City and served there until 1980. He was an Associate Judge, Baltimore City Circuit Court, 8th Judicial Circuit, from 1980 to 1984 when he was appointed to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Seven years later he was appointed to the state's highest court ...
Glenn T. Harrell Jr. (born 1945) is an American lawyer and jurist from Upper Marlboro, Maryland. From 1999 to 2015, he served as a judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state. [1] Harrell attended the University of Maryland, earning a B.A. in 1967 and a J.D. in 1970 from the University of Maryland School of Law. He ...
Harry A. Cole (January 1, 1921 – February 14, 1999) was an American lawyer, jurist and politician. He was a member of the Maryland State Senate from Baltimore, Maryland.He was the first African-American ever elected to the Maryland Senate and the first African-American to serve on the Maryland Court of Appeals.