W. Conwell Smith (1887-1954)
MSA SC 3520-14336
Associate Judge,Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1938-1945
Chief Judge, Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1945-54
President, Baltimore Bar Association, 1936-1937
Biography:
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, January 15, 1887. Son of Dr.
B.
Holly Smith (d. 1918) and Frances Gist Hopkins Smith. Attended
the Tome School. Received B.A., Johns Hopkins University,
1906;
LL.B., University of Maryland Law School, 1908. Admitted to the
bar,
December 24, 1908. Married, Spalding Donovan Smith; three
children, W. Conwell Smith, Jr., Mrs. Van Fossen Schwab, and Mrs. Innis
C. Haines. Died in Baltimore, Maryland, June 3, 1954.
Private practice with Mengel, Barton & Smith, 1908-1913.
First
Lieutenant, Air Service, 1918-1919. Associate Judge, Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City, 1938-1944. Chief Judge of the Supreme Bench,
1946-1954.
Member, House of Delegates of the American Bar Association,
1930-1938.
State Delegate, American Bar Association, 1943-1946. Member, Board of
the
Mental Hygiene Society 1944-1954. Member, Board of Trustees of the
Endowment
Fund of the University of Maryland, 1945-1954. Member, Standing
Committee
on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Court of Appeals of Maryland
1946-1954.
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