Circuit Court Biographies
Maryland School of Law, LLB, 1959 Admitted to
the Maryland Bar, 1959 Served in the U S Army,
European Theatre of Operations, 1943 -1946 Mem-
ber, American, Maryland State, and Harford County
Bar Associations, American Judicature Society Coun-
sel, Town of Bel Air, 1967-1976, attorney to
Harford County Charter Board, 1971, Harford Coun-
ty Library Board of Trustees, 1961 - 1973, Character
ComimUee, Third Judicial Cireurt, 1968 -1976, chair-
man, Open Spaces Committee, Harford County Mas-
ter Plan Member, Bel Air Rotary Club Marned, 1
child
CLAYTON CANN CARTER. Second Judicial Circuit,
1979 — Born in Centreville, October 15, 1918
Attended Centreville public schools, Duke University,
A B , 1939, University of Maryland School of Law, J D ,
1946 Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1946 Served in
the U S Army Signal Corps Member, American and
Maryland State Bar Associations, fellow, American Col-
lege of Trial Lawyers and the American College of Pro-
bate Counsel, American Judicature Society, Standing
Committee, Rules of Practice and Procedure of the
Court of Appeals, fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation,
vlce-ptesident, Maryland State Bar Association, 1960-
1961 State's attorney for Queen Anne's County,
1951 - 1954, county commissioner, Queen Anne's Coun-
ty, 1954-1958, attorney to the Board of Appeals of
Queen Anne's County, 1961-1971, chairman, Gover-
nor's Commission on City-County Fiscal Relations,
1959-1963 Judge, District Court, District 2, 1971-
1979 Marned, 3 children
WILLIAM MacKENZIE CAVE. Sixth Judicial Circuit,
1978 — Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Febru-
ary 4, 1934 Attended Montgomery County public
schools. University of Maryland, B A , 1958, University
of Maryland School of Law, LL B, 1961 Served in the
U S Army Member, Maryland State Bar Association
Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1961 Assistant state's
attorney, Montgomery County, 1967-1971, deputy
state's attorney, Montgomery County, 1971, judge,
Maryland District Court, Montgomery County, 1971 -
1978 Marned, 2 children
HOWARD S. CHASANOW. Seventh Judicial Circuit,
1977 — Born in Washington, D C, Apnl 3, 1937
Attended the University of Maryland, B A, 1958, Uni-
versity of Maryland School of Law, J D, 1961, Harvard
Law School, LLM, 1962 Admitted to the Maryland
Bar, 1961 Served in the US Air Force Member, Mary-
land State Bar Association, director, Pnnce George's
County Bar Association, chairman, Pnnce George's
County Bar Association Professional Ethics Committee,
1973 -1978, chairman, Judicial Conference Cnminal
Law Committee, 1976-1978, former chairman, Mary-
land State Bar Association Cnminal Law Section For-
mer assistant and deputy state's attorney for Pnnce
George's County, 1963- 1969, judge, Distnct Court of

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Maryland, 1971 -1977, lecturer. University of Mary-
land School of Law, 1973 — Marned, 1 child
EUGENE MACKALL CHILDS. Fifth Judicial Circuit,
1965 —, Chief Administrative Judge Born in
Baltimore, August 7, 1918 Attended Annapolis Gram-
mar School and National Cathedral School for Boys,
University of Virginia, BME, 1941, University of
Maryland, LL B, 1949 Admitted to the Maryland Bar,
1949 Past president, Anne Arundel County Bar Associ-
ation Senior Aeronautical Engineer, Pan Amencan
Airways, 1946 Past president, Southern Maryland Soci-
ety, member, South River Club (Registar), Annapolitan
Club, Sigma Chi, Theta Tau Marned, 3 children
FRANK E. CICONE. Third Judicial Circuit, 1974 — ,
Administrative Judge Born in Italy, May 26, 1920
Attended Pennsylvania public schools, Georgetown
University, BS, 1948, University of Baltimore Law
School, LLB, 1956 Admitted to the Maryland Bar,
1958 Served in the U S Army Member, Amencan
Justinian Society, Associated Italian-Amencan Chan-
ties Marned, 3 children
GUY J. CICONE. Fifth Judicial Circuit, 1976 — Born
in Weirton, West Virginia, September 20, 1918 Attended
Baltimore City College, University of Maryland, Loyola
College, B S , 1957, University of Maryland, LL B , 1952
Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1952 Served in the US
Armed Forces Assistant city solicitor, Baltimore City,
1958-1959, assistant attorney general for Maryland,
1962 - 1976, master examiner, Circuit Court for Howard
County, 1971 - 1976 Member, Second Distnct Demo-
cratic Club, Order of the Sons of Italy, Howard County,
Fort Meade Golf Club Marned, no children
ROBERT EARLE CLAPP, JR. Sixth Judicial Circuit,
1964 — , Chief Judge Born in Kanapolis, North Car-
olina, Apnl 28, 1910 Attended public schools in North
Carolina and Fredenck, Maryland* Washington and
Lee, BA, 1930, Harvard Law School, JD, 1933 Ad-
mitted to the Maryland Bar, 1934 Served in the US
Armed Forces Member, Amencan, Maryland State,
and Fredenck County Bar Associations, fellow, Amen-
can College of Tnal Lawyers, fellow, Maryland Bar
Foundation Maryland House of Delegates, 1939 Assis-
tant attorney general, 1939-1943, special assistant to
the attorney general, 1946-1949, chairman, Fredenck
City Board of Zoning Appeals, 1949-1954, chairman,
Board of Zoning Appeals of Fredenck County, 1957 -
1963 Member, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Beta Kappa,
Masons, Rule Day Club of Baltimore City, Amencan
Legion Trustee, Hood College, trustee, C Burr Artz
Library Marned, 4 children
HARRY E. CLARK. Second Judicial Circuit, 1966 —
Born in Easton, July 8, 1914 Graduate of Staunton Mili-
tary Academy, University of Virginia, B S , 1936, Univer-
sity of Virginia School of Law, LL B, 1938 Admitted