HERBERT F. MURRAY. U.S. District Court, 1971-.
Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, December 29, 1923.
Attended Yale, B.A., 1947; Harvard Law School; Uni-
versity of Maryland School of Law, LL.B., 1951. Admit-
ted to the 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 Distin-
guished Flying Cross. Member, American, Maryland
State, and Baltimore City Bar Associations; honorary
member of Federal Bar Association; permanent mem-
ber, 4th Circuit Judicial Conference; member, Wednes-
day Law Club. Law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge
W. Calvin Chesnut, 1951-1952; assistant U.S. attorney
for Maryland, 1954-1956. Member, Baltimore Museum
of Art; Walters Art Gallery; Maryland Historical Socie-
ty; Yale and University of Maryland Alumni Associa-
tions. Married; 1 child. Office telephone: 962-2505.

EDWARD S. NORTHROP. U.S. District Court, Sen-
ior Judge. Appointed in 1961; chief judge, 1970-1981.
Born in Chevy Chase, June 12, 1911. Attended George
Washington University, LL.B., 1937. In private practice
in Chevy Chase until 1941. Served in U.S. Navy,
1941-1945; served in all theatres, achieving rank of
commander; decorated by both Army and Navy. Later
associated with law firm of Lambert, Hart, and North-
rop. Member, Maryland Senate, 1955-1961; first Chair-
man of Committee on Taxation and Fiscal Affairs;
achieved position of majority leader and chairman of the
Finance Committee. Organizer of Council of Govern-
ments 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 of Steering Committee);
Advisory Corrections Council of the U.S., 1977-; Judi-
cial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, 1979-; State-Fed-
eral Judicial Council of Maryland (chairman,
1973-1974). Senior Judge and Chief Judge emeritus,
June 1981. Awards: 1975 George Washington Universi-
ty Law School Distinguished Service Award; 1981 State
of Maryland Distinguished Citizen Award, Federal Bar
Service Award; 1982 American Judicature Society Spe-
cial Merit Citation "in recognition of his outstanding
service for the improvement of the administration of jus-
tice"; Maryland State Bar Distinguished Service Award;
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; Senate of Mary-
land. Office telephone: 962-4674.

NORMAN P. RAMSEY. U.S. District Court, 1980-.
Bom in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1922.
Attended Loyola College; University of Maryland
School of Law; Marine Officer Training Program, Col-
gate University. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps,
1943-1945. Admitted to Maryland bar, 1946. Member,
Order of the Coif; American Bar Association (State del-
egate, 1960-1975); Maryland State Bar Association
(Board of Governors, 1963-1975; president, 1973-1974);
Baltimore City Bar Association (former member of Ex-
ecutive Committee); Federal Bar Association; American
Bar Foundation. Member, American College of Trial
Lawyers; International Society of Barristers; American

Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Ju-
diciary, 1968-1974. Past president. Library Company of
the Baltimore Bar; president. Legal Aid Bureau of Balti-
more, 1959-1962. Law clerk to the Honorable W. Cal-
vin Chesnut, 1947-1948; assistant U.S. attorney for
Maryland, 1948-1950; associate in firm of Semmes,
Bowen & Semmes, 1950-1954, partner, 1957-1980; as-
sistant attorney general of Maryland, 1955; deputy at-
torney general of Maryland, 1955-1957. Lecturer, Uni-
versity of Maryland School of Law, 1950-1971.
President, Civil Service Commission, 1963-1970; mem-
ber, Board of Ethics of Baltimore City, 1963-1970,
1974-1980; member, Mayor's Commission on Charter
Revision, 1963; president. Board of School Commission-
ers of Baltimore City, 1975; president, Board of Fire
Commissioners of Baltimore City, 1980; Board of Trust-
ees, Public Defender System, 1976-1980. Member,
Center Club; Lawyers Round Table; Wranglers; Rule
Day Club; Wednesday Law Club; St. Andrews Society;
Wig and Pen Club. Married Margaret Q. Ramsey (de-
ceased Feb. 5, 1979), Tucky Patz Ramsey, July 10,
1982; 4 daughters. Office telephone: 962-2722.

FREDERIC N. SMALKIN. U.S. District Court, 1986-.
Bom in Baltimore, May 21, 1946. Attended Johns Hop-
kins University, B.A., 1968; University of Maryland
School of Law, J.D., 1971. Member, Phi Beta Kappa;
Order of the Coif. Admitted to the Maryland bar, 1972.
Served in the U.S. Army as Captain, Judge Advocate
General's Corps, and Assistant to the General Counsel
of the Army; meritorious service medal (1 OLC). Mem-
ber, Federal, American, and Maryland State Bar As-
sociations. Member, The Wednesday Law Club; The
Wranglers. Served as United States Magistrate, District
of Maryland, 1976-1986. Lecturer in Commercial Law,
University of Maryland School of Law, from 1978. Fac-
ulty member, MICPEL; University of Virginia Trial Ad-
vocacy Institute; numerous others. Married; 2 children.
Office telephone: 962-3840.

ROSZEL C. THOMSEN. U.S. District Court, 1954-.
Born in Baltimore, August 17, 1900. Attended The
Johns Hopkins University, A.B., 1919; University of
Maryland, LL.B., 1922. Admitted to the Maryland bar,
1922. Served in the Student Army Training Corps.
Member, Maryland, Baltimore City, and American Bar
Associations; Lawyers' Round Table; Rule Day Club.
Member, Judicial Conference of U.S., 1957-1964; chair-
man, Standing Committee on Rules of Practice & Proce-
dure of Judicial Conference of the U.S., 1973-1980;
member. Advisory Committee on Civil Rules,
1959-1970, 1972-1973; member, Committee to Imple-
ment Criminal Justice Act, 1964-1973 (chairman,
1972-1973); member, Advisory Committee on Judicial
Activities, 1969-1973; member. Coordinating Commit-
tee on Multiple Litigation, 1962-1968; member. Com-
mittee on Administration of Criminal Law, 1971-1973;
president, Maryland State Bar Association, 1972-1973.
Awarded honorary doctor of laws, Goucher College.
Secretary, Maryland Board of Law Examiners,
1943-1944; president, Board of Education of Baltimore
City, 1944-1954. Married; 3 children. Office telephone:
685-3522.