Circuit Court Biographies

Boys Club; president, Har Sinai Congregation Brother-
hood; former president. City College Alumni Associa-
tion; former president, Greater Baltimore Chapter
March of Dimes; former member, Governor's Commis-
sion on Law Enforcement and the Administration of
Justice; former member, Board of Directors, Better
Business Bureau; Jewish Community Center; Johns
Hopkins Club. Baltimore City College Hall of Fame;
Golden Deeds Award, Exchange Club; Man of the
Year, Hebrew Noble Ladies; Afro American Honor
Role for Superior Public Service; Annual Award for
Humanitarian Service, National Council of Jewish
Women. Unmarried.

JOHN RAYMOND HARGROVE, SR. Eighth Judi-
cial Circuit, 1974—. Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey,
October 25, 1923. Attended St. Catherine's Academy;
Frederick Douglass High School; Morgan State College;
Howard University, B.A., 1947; University of Maryland
School of Law, LL.B., 1950. Admitted to the Maryland
Bar, 1950. Served in the U.S. Army. Member, National,
Maryland State, Baltimore City, and Monumental City
Bar Associations; Character Committee, Court of Ap-
peals. Assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Mary-
land, 1955; deputy U.S. attorney, 1957-1962; associate
judge of the Peoples Court, Baltimore City, 1962-1963;
associate judge for the Municipal Court, Baltimore
City, 1968-1971; administrative judge, District Court
of Maryland, 1971-1974. Married; 4 children.

EDWARD D. HIGINBOTHOM. Third Judicial Cir-
cuit, 1974—. Born in Ellicott City, February 28, 1914.
Attended St. Margaret's, Bel Air, and Loyola High
School, Baltimore; Loyola College, A.B., 1934; Univer-
sity of Maryland, LL.B., 1938. Admitted to the Mary-
land Bar, 1938. Served in the U.S. Army. Member,
American, Maryland, and Harford County Bar Associa-
tions. Order of the Coif, University of Maryland, 1938.
Member, Bel Air Rotary Club. Married; 4 children.

NAT W. HOPPER. Fifth Judicial Circuit, 1975—.
Born in De Soto County, Mississippi, January 5, 1921.
Attended the University of Maryland; George Washing-
ton University, LL.B., 1950. Admitted to the Maryland
Bar, 1965. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Member,
American, Maryland State, and Anne Arundel County
Bar Associations. Member, Attorney Grievance Com-
mission, 1975; president, Association of Defense Trial
Counsel, 1974-1975. Member, Annapolitan Club; Na-
val Academy Golf Association; Bay Hills Country
Club. Married; 2 children.

CULLEN H. HORMES. Third Judicial Circuit,
1978—. Born in Baltimore, February 26, 1923. Attended
Baltimore County public schools; University of Mary-
land, J.D., 1951. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1951.
Served in the U.S. Army. Chief judge. Peoples Court of
Baltimore County, 1967-1971; associate judge. District
Court of Maryland, 1971 -1978. Married; 2 children.

JOSEPH H. H. KAPLAN. Eighth Judicial Circuit,
1976—. Born in Brooklyn, New York, January 2, 1937.
Attended The Johns Hopkins University, A.B., 1957;
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1960. Admit-
ted to the Maryland Bar, 1961. Served in the U.S.
Army, U.S. Army National Guard, U.S. Air Force Re-

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serve, and U.S. Navy Reserve. Member, American,
Maryland State, and Baltimore City Bar Associations.
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland,
1963-1965; executive secretary. Mayor's Advisory
Commission on Crime; member, Maryland Commission
on Human Relations, 1969-1971; president. Civil Ser-
vice Commission of Baltimore City, 1972-1977;
Baltimore City Expenditure Control Committee and
Board of Ethics, 1972-1977; chairman, Baltimore City
Executive Pay Plan Commission. President, Quarter
Way House, Inc., 1977-1979; trustee, Woodbourne
Center; member. Board of Prisoners Aid Society; mem-
ber, Serjeants' Inn Law Club; former officer. Big Broth-
ers and Big Sisters of Central Maryland, Inc.; former
officer, Dismas House. Married; 3 children.

ROBERT L. KARWACKI. Eighth Judicial Circuit,
1973—. Born in Baltimore, August 2, 1933. Attended
Mt. St. Joseph's High School; University of Maryland,
A.B., 1954; University of Maryland School of Law,
LL.B., 1956. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1956.
Served in the U.S. Army Reserve. Member, American,
Maryland State, and Baltimore City Bar Associations.
Assistant attorney general for Maryland, 1963-1965;
president. Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore
City, 1970-1971; member, Advisory Board, Juvenile
Services Administration, 1976—; chairman, Juvenile
Justice Commission, 1975-1977; member, Governor's
Commission to Revise the Testamentary Laws of Mary-
land, 1965-1969. Married; 3 children.

RICHARD B. LATHAM, SR. Sixth Judicial Circuit,
1975—. Born in Patchogue, New York, June 12, 1926.
Attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School; Universi-
ty of Maryland; University of Maryland Law School,
J.D., 1952. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1952. Served
in the U.S. Army. Member, Maryland State and Mont-
gomery County Bar Associations; American Judges As
sociation; American Judicature Society; Maryland Bar
Foundation. Past president, Montgomery County Bar
Association; treasurer, Maryland State Bar Association,
1978-1980. Member, Ethics Commission of Montgom-
ery County, 1967-1970. Judge, Peoples Court, 1970-
1971; associate judge, District Court of Maryland, 1971-
1975. Married; 3 children.

EUGENE M. LERNER. Fifth Judicial Circuit, 1979—.
Born in Annapolis, December 18, 1931. Attended An-
napolis Grammar School and Annapolis High School;
University of Maryland, 1948-1950; University of
Baltimore, J.D., 1954. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1954.
Served in U.S. Army, 1954-1956. Member, Anne
Arundel County Bar Association (president, 1976-1977;
treasurer, 1962-1963); Maryland State Bar Association
(Board of Governors, 1979-1980); American Bar Asso-
ciation; District of Columbia Bar Association; Maryland
Municipal Attorneys Association (president, 1977-
1979). Maryland Trial Magistrate, 1958-1959; alder-
man, City of Annapolis, 1961-1965; city attorney for
City of Annapolis, 1969-1979; attorney for Anne
Arundel County Electrical Board, 1957-1958; member,
Annapolis Planning and Zoning Commission, 1961-
1963. Member, Jewish War Veterans; B'nai B'rith; Amos
Lodge—Masons; Trial Judges Association of Maryland;
American Judicature Society. Married; 3 children.