Carroll T. Bond (1873-1943) 
MSA SC 3520-1630

Biography:

Born in Baltimore City, June 13, 1873.  Son of James Bond and Elizabeth Lyon Bond.  Attended Lamb's School; Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire; Harvard University, B.A., 1894; University of Maryland School of Law, LL.B., 1896.  Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1896.  Unmarried.  Died in Baltimore City, January 18, 1943.  Buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore City.

Served in the Maryland National Guard, Spanish-American War, 1896-99.  Practiced law in Baltimore for 15 years.  Associate, Marshall, Marbury & Bowdoin; later Marbury & Bowdoin; later partner in Williams & Bond, and Marbury & Gosnell.  Member, Board of School Commissioners, Baltimore City, after 1911.  Trial Judge, Supreme Bench of Baltimore City (now Circuit Court for Baltimore City), 1911-24.  Associate Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals, 1924; Chief Judge, 1924-43.  Honorary doctorate of Laws, the Johns Hopkins University, 1924.  Author of The Court of Appeals of Maryland:  A History.  Baltimore:  Barton-Gillet Company, 1928.  Chair, Commission on the Judiciary Article of the Constitution (the "Bond Commission" for modernizing and reorganizing the Court of Appeals). President, Harvard Club of Maryland, 1909. Member, Board of Trustees, Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children. Chair, Hall of Records Commission. Trustee, Peabody Institute; Provident Hospital. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.

Judge Carroll T. Bond gave an address named Judicial Ethics in 1924 for the Maryland Bar. He wrote the piece at the urging of Judge T. Scott Offutt who was the President of the Maryland State Bar Association. Judge Offutt wanted to belabor a point of respecting the law in different contexts. Bond’s speech touched on the pressures the media places on judges to act or rule in a certain way, and this pressure corrupts the legal system.

Sources:

http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001600/001630/html/1630bio.html

The Growth of Judicial Ethics (1924). Carroll T. Bond. MD State Bar Association.