Circuit Court Biographies

School of Law, LL.B., 1950. Admitted to the Maryland
Bar, 1950. Served in the U.S. Army. Member, National,
Maryland State, Baltimore City, and Monumental City
Bar Associations; Character Committee, Court of Ap-
peals. Assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Mary-
land, 1955; deputy U.S. attorney, 1957-1962; associate
judge of the Peoples Court, Baltimore City, 1962-1963;
associate judge for the Municipal Court, Baltimore
City, 1968-1971; administrative judge, District Court of
Maryland, 1971-1974. Married; 4 children.

ROBERT S. HEISE. Fifth Judicial Circuit, 1981—.
Bom in Annapolis, August 28, 1923. Attended Annap-
olis High School; University of Baltimore, A.A., 1949;
University of Baltimore, LL.B., 1952. Admitted to the
Maryland Bar, 1952. Served in the U.S. Army Air
Corps, 1942-1946. Member, Anne Arundel County Bar
Association (former president); American Judicature So-
ciety; Executive Committee of the Maryland Judicial
Conference. President, Board of Recreation and Parks
for the City of Annapolis, 1954-1956; attorney for the
Board of Election Supervisors, Anne Arundel County,
1955-1959; Trial Magistrate, Anne Arundel County,
1959-1964. Member, Lions Club, Elks. Judge, District
7, District Court of Maryland, 1964-1981. Married; 3
children.

EDWARD D. HIGINBOTHOM. Third Judicial Cir-
cuit, 1974—. Born in Ellicott City, February 28, 1914.
Attended St. Margaret's, Bel Air, and Loyola High
School, Baltimore; Loyola College, A.B., 1934; Univer-
sity of Maryland, LL.B., 1938. Admitted to the Mary-
land Bar, 1938. Served in the U.S. Army. Member,
American, Maryland, and Harford County Bar Associa-
tions. Order of the Coif, University of Maryland, 1938.
Member, Bel Air Rotary Club. Married; 4 children.

J. WILLIAM HINKEL. Third Judicial Circuit, 1981 —.
Bom in Baltimore City, April 4, 1932. Attended
Baltimore City public schools; University of Baltimore,
A.A., 1956; University of Baltimore School of Law,
LL.B., 1959. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1959.
Member, Baltimore County Bar Association. Maryland
House of Delegates, 1967-1970. Peoples counsel, Public
Service Commission, 1970-1971. Judge, District 8, Dis-
trict Court of Maryland, 1971-1981. 3 children.

CULLEN H. HORMES. Third Judicial Circuit,
1978—. Bom in Baltimore, February 26, 1923.
Attended Baltimore County public schools; University
of Maryland, J.D., 1951. Admitted to the Maryland
Bar, 1951. Served in the U.S. Army. Chief judge. Peo-
ples Court of Baltimore County, 1967-1971; associate
judge. District Court of Maryland, 1971-1978. Married;
2 children.

KENNETH L. JOHNSON. Eighth Judicial Circuit,
1982—. Bom in Columbia, Mississippi, July 26, 1937.
Attended Globe Academy; Southern University, B.A.,
1959; Howard University, J.D., 1962. Admitted to the
Maryland Bar, 1970. Served in the U.S. Army Judge

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Advocate General's Corps, 1962-1966. Member, Ameri-
can, Maryland State, Washington, D.C., Louisiana, and
Monumental City Bar Associations. Member of editori-
al staff and notes editor, Howard Law Journal, 1961-
1962. Recipient of Maryland Seventh Congressional
District Award for Community Service; Public Spirit
Award for Outstanding Leadership; J.S. dark Memori-
al Award for high academic achievement. Married; 2
children.

RAYMOND J. KANE, JR. Fifth Judicial Circuit,
1982—. Born in Baltimore, June 9, 1938. Attended
Calvert Hall High School; Loyola College; University of
Maryland School of Law, LL.B., 1963. Admitted to the
Maryland Bar, 1964. Served in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Member, Maryland State and Howard County Bar As-
sociations. President, Howard County Bar Association,
1976-1977. Assistant state's attorney, Howard County,
1966; counsel to Howard County Welfare Board, 1967;
counsel to Howard County Park Board. Former presi-
dent, Ellicott City Junior Chamber of Commerce. Co-
editor, Howard County Code. 1970 and 1971 editions.
Judge, District 10, District Court of Maryland, 1977-
1982. Married; 2 children.

JOSEPH H. H. KAPLAN. Eighth Judicial Circuit,
1977—. Born in Brooklyn, New York, January 2, 1937.
Attended The Johns Hopkins University, A.B., 1957;
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1960. Admit-
ted to the Maryland Bar, 1961. Served in the U.S.
Army, U.S. Army National Guard, U.S. Air Force Re-
serve, and U.S. Navy Reserve. Member, American,
Maryland State, and Baltimore City Bar Associations.
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland,
1963-1965; served as executive secretary. Mayor's Advi-
sory Commission on Crime; member, Maryland Com-
mission on Human Relations, 1969-1971; president,
Civil Service Commission of Baltimore City, 1972-1977;
member, Baltimore City Expenditure Control Commit-
tee and Board of Ethics, 1972-1977; chairman,
Baltimore City Executive Pay Plan Committee; presi-
dent, Library Committee of the Baltimore Bar, 1979—.
Member, Serjeants' Inn Law Club; Barristers' Law
Club; trustee, Har Sinai Congregation, 1981—; presi-
dent, Quarter Way House, Inc., 1977-1979; trustee,
Woodbourne Center, 1967-1982; member, Board of
Prisoners Aid Society; former officer, Big Brothers and
Big Sisters of Central Maryland, Inc.; former officer,
Dismas House. Married; 3 children.

ROBERT L. KARWACKI. Eighth Judicial Circuit,
1973—; Administrative Judge. Born in Baltimore, Au-
gust 2, 1933. Attended Mt. St. Joseph's High School;
University of Maryland, A.B., 1954; University of
Maryland School of Law, LL.B., 1956. Admitted to the
Maryland Bar, 1956. Served in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Member, American, Maryland State, and Baltimore
City Bar Associations. Assistant attorney general for
Maryland, 1963-1965. Member, Governor's Commis-
sion to Revise the Testamentary Laws of Maryland,