David B. Mitchell
MSA SC 3520-11704
Associate Judge, 8th Judicial Circuit (Circuit Ct) 1984-2001
Biography:
Born David Benjamin Mitchell in New York City, May 1945. Attended Fisk University; Columbia University School of Law. Married, 3 children.
Associate Judge, Baltimore City Circuit Court, 8th Judicial Circuit,
from 1984 to December 14, 2001 (Administrative Judge, Juvenile Court, 1984-95).
Retired
December 14, 2001. Judge in Charge of Juvenile Docket, 1984-95. Judge
in Charge of Criminal Docket, 1999-2001. Chair, Committee on Juvenile and
Family Law and Procedure, 1986-88, and
Criminal Law and Procedure Committee, 1999-2000, Maryland Judicial
Conference.
Assistant Chief, Case Preparation Unit, State's Attorney's Office, Baltimore
City, 1972-73. Assistant Public Defender, Baltimore City, 1973. Board of
Directors, Federal Pretrial-Release
Program, 1975-84. Board of Advisors, Paralegal Program, Dundalk Community
College. Member, Attorney Grievance Commission, 1979-83; Character Committee,
8th Judicial Circuit,
1979-84; Court of Appeals Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 1983-84; Maryland Juvenile Justice Advisory Council, 1985-89;
Family Violence Council, 1995-. Born
in Bronx, New York, May 25, 1945. Attended The Peddie School, Hightstown,
New Jersey; Fisk University, B.A., 1967; Columbia University School of
Law, J.D., 1970. Admitted to
Maryland Bar, 1970. Member, National Bar Association (committees on
professional ethics & commercial law); Maryland State Bar Association
(council of juvenile & family law;
committees on professional responsibility & fee disputes); Monumental
City Bar Association (past vice-president; chair, judicial selections committee);
National Council of Juvenile
and Family Court Judges (chair, metropolitan court judges committee,
1988-89; board of trustees, 1988). Associate, Brown, Allen & Josey,
1970-72. Founding partner, Mitchell &
Lee, 1973-84. Director and Chief Executive Officer, National Council
of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 2001-. Lecturer and faculty, National
College of Juvenile and Family
Law. Past member, Board of Trustees, Visiting Nurse Association of
Baltimore, Inc.; American Society of Hospital Attorneys. Chair, Board of
Trustees, Associated Marine Institutes.
President, Board of Trustees, The Peddie School; Fort Smallwood Marine
Institutes, Inc. President, Baltimore Fisk Club. Member, Inter-Alumni Council
of Maryland;
Intergovernmental Relations Committee, United Way of Central Maryland.
Lawrence S. Greenbaum Prize for Appellate Advocacy, Columbia University
School of Law. Maryland
Leadership in Law Award, Daily Record, 2001. Member, Church of the
Holy Trinity.
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