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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Maryland Court of Appeals judges, Maryland Court of Special Appeals judges, Joseph C. Howard, Sr., Montgomery Blair, John R. Hargrove, Sr., List of Judges of the Maryland Court of Appeals, Robert I. H. Hammerman, John Thomson Mason, Jr., Lynne A. Battaglia, Roger W. Brown, Ellen Lipton Hollander, Joseph I. Pines, Robert Wright, Harry A. Cole, Jeremiah Chase, Catherine Curran O'Malley, Richard Potts, Arrie W. Davis, Peter Little, Ezekiel F. Chambers, James Barroll Ricaud, Peter B. Krauser, Roger Nelson, Robert A. Zarnoch, Frederick Stone, Benjamin Mackall IV, Henry Stockbridge, Jr., John R. Foley, Upton Sheredine, J. Harold Grady, Henry William Hoffman, John Ross Key, Joseph Hopper Nicholson, Linwood Clark, George Baer, Jr., John Ritchie, Charles Boyle Roberts, Thomas King Carroll, Alexander McKim, Thomas Culbreth, Robert H. Harrison, Winder Laird Henry, James Augustus Stewart, John Gill, Jr., Edward Hammond, Thomas Ara Spence, Irma S. Raker, James T. Smith, Jr., Robert N. Martin, Patrick Hamill, Henry Page, Thomas S. Baer, Thomas Johns Perry, William Matthews, John Campbell, William Craik, Clayton Greene, Jr., Alan M. Wilner, Glenn T. Harrell, Jr., Dale R. Cathell, Albert Constable, James A. Kenney, III, James Thomas, Charles Francis Stein, Sr.. Excerpt: Joseph Clemens Howard, Sr. (December 9, 1922 - September 16, 2000) was the first African American to win an election as judge for the Baltimore City Supreme Bench and was later appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, becoming the first African American to serve on that bench as well. Howard was born to Charles Preston Howard and Maude L. (Lewis) Howard in Des Moines, Iowa. His father, a friend of civil rights leader Dr. Ralph Bunche, was black, his mother a Native American (Sioux). His father was a lawyer...