Circuit Court Biographies

powder Youth Camps, Inc. (Board of Directors; presi-
dent, 1972-1973); former president, Towson Elementary
PTA and Towsontowne Junior High School PTA. Mar-
ried; 3 children.

WILLIAM R. BUCHANAN, SR. Third Judicial Cir-
cuit, 1976—. Born in Baltimore, July 25, 1926.
Attended Mount St. Joseph High School; Loyola Col-
lege, Ph.B., 1949; University of Maryland School of
Law, LL.B., 1953. Admitted to the Maryland Bar,
1953. Served in the U.S. Army. Member, Board of
Governors, Maryland State Bar Association, 1971-
1972; past secretary and member, Executive Council,
Baltimore County Bar Association; Criminal Law Sec-
tion, American Bar Association. Judge, District Court,
1971-1976. Co-author and committee member, Pattern
Jury Instructions. Past secretary, Board of Property Re-
view, Baltimore County; past president, Stoneleigh
Community Association; member Advisory Board, St.
Joseph Hospital. Married, 5 children.

LUKE K. BURNS, JR. Fifth Judicial Circuit, 1979—.
Born in Baltimore, January 27, 1934. Attended Loyola
High School; Fordham University, B.A., 1957; Univer-
sity of Baltimore Law School, LL.B., 1964. Admitted to
the Maryland Bar, 1964. Member, Maryland State Bar
Association. Judge, District Court, District 10, 1978-
1979. Married; 2 children.

JOHN CARROLL BYRNES. Eighth Judicial Circuit,
1982—. Born in Baltimore, September 1, 1939. Attend-
ed Baltimore City parochial schools; Loyola College,
B.S., 1961; University of Georgia; The Johns Hopkins
University; University of Maryland School of Law,
J.D., 1966. President, Student Bar Association (1965-
1966); Outstanding Young Man of the Year, Baltimore
Jaycees. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1966. Served in
the U.S. Army. Delegate, Constitutional Convention of
Maryland, 1967-1968. Chairman, Herring Run Water-
shed Commission. Former member, Commission to Re-
vise Landlord-Tenant Laws; Governing Body, Central
Maryland Health Systems Agency, 1975-1977. Mem-
ber, American, Maryland State, and Baltimore City Bar
Associations; Citizens' Commission on Maryland Gov-
ernment. Member, Advisory Board, Baltimore Neigh-
borhoods, Inc.; board member, Baltimore Choral Soci-
ety. Former vice-president, Loyola College Alumni
Association. Member of the Maryland Senate 1971-
1982. Former chairman. Legislative Council Special
Committee on Real Estate Practices. Former member,
Maryland Port Advisory Committee. Chairman, Higher
Education Evaluation Committee, 1979-1980. Chair-
man and co-chairman, Maryland Commission on Inter-
governmental Cooperation, 1975-1982; vice-chairman,
Senate Finance Committee, 1975-1982. Married.

DAVID L. CAHOON. Sixth Judicial Circuit, 1971—;
Circuit Administrative Judge. Bom in Brockton, Massa-
chusetts, April 8, 1921. Attended public schools in
Rockland and Fairhaven, Massachusetts; University of

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Maine College of Engineering; Georgetown University
School of Foreign Service, B.S., Public Administration;
Georgetown University, LL.B., 1951. Admitted to
Maryland Bar, 1952. Served in the U.S. Army Air
Force. City attorney, Rockville, 1954-1958; attorney,
towns of Garrett Park and Brookville; member. County
Council, Montgomery County, 1958-1962; Presidential
Trustee, United Planning Organization, 1960-1968;
Democratic State Central Committee, 1962-1966;
County Attorney, Montgomery County, 1967-1971.
Married; 4 children.

BRODNAX CAMERON, JR. Third Judicial Circuit,
1976—. Bom in Charlottesville, Virginia, November
15, 1921. Attended Gilman School and Bel Air High
School; Princeton University, A.B., 1943; University of
Maryland School of Law, LL.B., 1959. Admitted to the
Maryland Bar, 1959. Served in the U.S. Army, Europe-
an Theatre of Operations, 1943-1946. Member, Ameri-
can, Maryland State, and Harford County Bar Associa-
tions; American Judicature Society. Counsel, Town of
Bel Air, 1967-1976; attorney to Harford County Char-
ter Board, 1971; Harford County Library Board of
Trustees, 1961-1973; Character Committee, Third Judi-
cial Circuit, 1968-1976; chairman, Open Spaces Com-
mittee, Harford County Master Plan. Member, Bel Air
Rotary Club. Married; 1 child.

CLAYTON CANN CARTER. Second Judicial Circuit,
1978—. Born in Centreville, October 15, 1918.
Attended Centreville public schools; Duke University,
A.B., 1939; University of Maryland School of Law,
J.D., 1946. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1946.
Served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Member, Ameri-
can and Maryland State Bar Associations; fellow,
American College of Trial Lawyers and the American
College of Probate Counsel; American Judicature Soci-
ety; fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation; vice-president,
Maryland State Bar Association, 1960-1961. State's at-
torney for Queen Anne's County, 1951-1954; county
commissioner. Queen Anne's County, 1954-1958; attor-
ney to the Board of Appeals of Queen Anne's County,
1961-1971; chairman. Governor's Commission on City-
County Fiscal Relations, 1959-1963. Judge, District
Court, District 2, 1971-1978. Married; 3 children.

DALE R. CATHELL. First Judicial Circuit, 1981—.
Born in Berlin, July 30, 1937. Attended Buckingham
Elementary School; Stephen Decatur High School; Uni-
versity of Maryland, 1962-1964; University of Balti-
more, LL.B., 1967. Admitted to the Maryland Bar,
1967. Served in U.S. Air Force, 1955-1959. Member,
American, Maryland State, and Worcester County Bar
Associations. City Attorney for Ocean City; member,
Worcester County Shoreline Commission; Charter Revi-
sion Committee; organizer. Legal Intern Program.
Judge, District 2, District Court of Maryland, 1980-
1981. Organizer, People to People Program. Married; 3
children.