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Bernstein, Conaway and Goldman. Member, Board of
Directors, American Judicature Society, 1985—; Board of
Governors, American Bar Association, 1982-85.
Vice-Chairman, Judicial Administration Division,
American Bar Association, 1988—. Member, Judicial
Conference of the United States, 1985—. Member,
Security Committee of the Judicial Conference of the
United States, 1987—. Former lecturer on administrative
law, University of Baltimore, and former lecturer on
contracts, University of Maryland School of Law. Author,
"The Maryland Ground Rent System," Maryland Law
Rmm (1940). Office telephone: 962-4360.

J. FREDERICK MOTZ. U.S. District Court, 1985—.
Born in Baltimore, December 30, 1942. Wesleyan
University, A.B., 1964; University of Virginia School of
Law, LL.B., 1967. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1968.
Member, American, Maryland State and Baltimore City
Bar Associations; American College of Trial Lawyers.
Member, Serjeants' Inn; Wednesday Law Club. Law clerk
to Judge Harrison L. Winter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Fourth Circuit, 1967-68. Venable, Baetjer and Howard,
1968-69. Assistant United States Attorney, District of
Maryland, 1969-71. Venable, Baetjer and Howard,
1971-81 (partner, 1976-81). United States Attorney,
District of Maryland, 1981-85.Member, Board ofTrustees,
Friends School of Baltimore, 1970-77,1981-88; Board of
Trustees, Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, 1987—.
Member, Advisory Board, Baltimore City Department of
Social Services, 1973-81. Office telephone: 962-0782.

HERBERT F. MURRAY. U.S. District Court, 1971—.
Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, December 29,1923. Yak
University, B.A., 1947; Harvard University Law School;
University of Maryland School of Law, LL.B., 1951.
Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1951. Served as an Air Force
navigator, 1943-1945, with rank of captain at discharge;
received Mediterranean Theater ribbon with four stars, Air
Medal with three oak leaf clusters, and Distinguished
Flying Cross. Member, American, Maryland State and
Baltimore City Bar Associations; honorary member of
Federal Bar Association; permanent member, 4th Circuit
Judicial Conference. Member, Wednesday Law Club. Law
clerk to U.S. District Court Judge W Calvin Chesnut,
1951-52. Assistant U.S. attorney for Maryland, 1954-56.
Associate, then partner, Smith, Somerville and Case,
1956-71. Member, Baltimore Museum of Art; Walters Art
Gallery; Maryland Historical Society; Yale University and
University of Maryland Alumni Associations. Office
telephone: 962-2505.

PAUL V. NIEMEYER. U.S. District Court, 1988—.
Born in Princeton, New Jersey, 1941. Kenyon College,
A.B., 1962; University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D.,
1966. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1966. Member, Court of
Appeals Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 1973-88. Co-author, Maryland Rules
Commentary. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers;
American Law Institute; American Bar Foundation;
Maryland Bar Foundation.

EDWARD S. NORTHROP. U.S. District Court, Senior
Judge since 1981. Appointed in 1961. Chief Judge,
1970-1981. Born in Chevy Chase, June 12,1911. George
Washington University LL.B., 1937. In private practice in
Chevy Chase until 1941. Served in U.S. Navy, 1941-45;
served in all theatres, achieving rank of commander;
decorated by both Army and Navy. Later associated with
law firm of Lambert, Hart, and Northrop. Member,
Maryland Senate, 1955-61; majority leader, first chairman

of Committee on Taxation and Fiscal Affairs; chairman,
Finance Committee. Organizer of Council of Governments
in the Metropolitan Area of Washington, D.C., and
instrumental in establishing area-wide mass transit
commission. Member, Committee on Administration of
the Probation System, Judicial Conference of the United
States; U.S. District Court Metropolitan Chief Judges'
Conference (former member, steering committee);
Advisory Corrections Council of the U.S., 1977—; Judicial
Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, 1979—; State-Federal
Judicial Council of Maryland (chairman, 1973-74); United
States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.
Senior Judge and Chief Judge emeritus, June 1981.
Awards: 1975 George Washington University Law School
Distinguished Service Award; 1981 State of Maryland
Distinguished Citizen Award, Federal Bar Service Award;
1982 American Judicature Society Special Merit Citation
"in recognition of outstanding service for improvement of
the administration of justice," Maryland State Bar
Distinguished Service Award; Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore; Maryland Senate. Office telephone: 962-4674.

NORMAN P. RAMSEY. U.S. District Court, 1980—.
Born in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1922.
Loyola College; University of Maryland School of Law;
Marine Officer Training Program, Colgate University Served
in U.S. Marine Corps, 1943-45. Admitted to Maryland Bar,
1946. Member, Order of the Coif; American Bar Association
(State delegate, 1960-75; Standing Committee on the
Federal Judiciary, 1968-74); Maryland State Bar Association
(board of governors, 1963-/5; president, 1973-74);
Baltimore City Bar Association (former member, executive
committee); Federal Bar Association; American Bar
Foundation. Member, American College of Trial Lawyers;
International Society of Barristers. Past president, Library
Company of the Baltimore Bar; president, Legal Aid Bureau
of Baltimore, 1959-62. Law clerk to Judge W Calvin
Chesnut, 1947-48; assistant U.S. attorney for Maryland,
1948-50. Associate in firm of Semmes, Bowen & Semmes,
1950-54 (partner, 1957-80). Assistant attorney general of
Maryland, 1955; deputy attorney general of Maryland,
1955-57. Lecturer, University of Maryland School of Law,
1950-71. President, Civil Service Commission, 1963-70;
member, Board of Ethics, Baltimore Gty, 1963-70,1974-80.
Mayor's Commission on Charter Revision, Baltimore Gty,
1963. President, Board of School Commissioners, Baltimore
City, 1975. President, Board of Fire Commissioners,
Baltimore City, 1980; Board ofTrustees, Public Defender
System, 1976-80. Member, Center Club; Lawyers Round
Table; Wranglers; Rule Day Club; Wednesday Law Club; St.
Andrews Society; Wig and Pen Club. Office telephone:
962-2722.

FREDERIC N. SMALKIN. U.S. District Court,
1986—. Born in Baltimore, May 21, 1946. The Johns
Hopkins University, B.A., 1968; University of Maryland
School of Law, J.D., 1971. Member, Phi Beta Kappa;
Order of the Coif. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1972. Served
in U.S. Armyas Captain, Judge Advocate General's Corps,
and Assistant to the General Counsel of the Army;
meritorious service medal (one OLC). Member, Federal,
American and Maryland State Bar Associations. Member,
Wednesday Law Club; Wranglers. Served as United States
Magistrate, District of Maryland, 1976-86. Lecturer in
Commercial Law, University of Maryland School of Law,
1978—. Faculty member, Maryland Institute for the
Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers
(MICPEL); University of Virginia Trial Advocacy
Institute; numerous others. Office telephone: 962-3840.