United States District Court

Murray; 1 child. Office address: U.S. Courthouse, 101
W. Lombard St., Baltimore 21201; tel. 962-2505.

NORMAN P. RAMSEY. Appointed in 1980. Born in
Fairchance, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1922. Attended
Loyola College; University of Maryland School of Law;
Marine Officer Training Program, Colgate University.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1943-1945. Admit-
ted to Maryland bar, 1946. Member, Order of the Coit;
American Bar Association (State delegate, 1960-1975);
Maryland State Bar Association (Board of Governors,
1963-1975; president, 1973-1974); Baltimore City Bar
Association (former member of Executive Committee);
Federal Bar Association; American Bar Foundation.
Member, American College of Trial Lawyers; Interna-
tional Society of Barristers; American Bar Association
Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, 1968-
1974. Past president. Library Company of the
Baltimore Bar; president, Legal Aid Bureau of
Baltimore, 1959-1962. Law clerk to the Honorable W.
Calvin Chesnut, 1947-1948; assistant U.S. attorney for
Maryland, 1948-1950; associate in firm of Semmes,
Bowen & Semmes, 1950-1954, partner, 1957-1980; as-
sistant attorney general of Maryland, 1955; deputy at-
torney general of Maryland, 1955-1957. Lecturer, Uni-
versity of Maryland School of Law, 1950-1971.
President, Civil Service Commission, 1963-1970; mem-
ber, Board of Ethics of Baltimore City, 1963-1970,
1974-1980; member. Mayor's Commission on Charter
Revision, 1963; president, Board of School Commis-
sioners of Baltimore City, 1975; president. Board of
Fire Commissioners of Baltimore City, 1980; Board of
Trustees, Public Defender System, 1976—. Member,
Maryland Club; Merchants Club; Center Club; Law-
yers Round Table; Wranglers; Rule Day Club;
Wednesday Law Club; St. Andrews Society; Wig and
Pen Club. Widowed; 4 daughters. Office address: U.S.
Courthouse, 101 W. Lombard St., Baltimore 21201; tel.
962-2722.

ROSZEL C. THOMSEN. Appointed in 1954. Born in
Baltimore, August 17, 1900. Attended The Johns Hop-

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kins University, A.B., 1919; University of Maryland,
LL.B., 1922. Admitted to the Maryland bar, 1922.
Served in the Student Army Training Corps. Member,
Maryland, Baltimore City, and American Bar Associa-
tions; Lawyers' Round Table; Rule Day Club. Awarded
honorary doctor of laws, Goucher College. Secretary,
Maryland Board of Law Examiners, 1943-1944; presi-
dent, Board of Education of Baltimore City, 1944-1954.
Married to Carol Griffing Wolf Thomson; 3 children.
Office address: 720 U.S. Courthouse, 101 W. Lombard
St., Baltimore 21201; tel. 962-3522.

R. DORSEY WATKINS. Appointed in 1955. Born in
Baltimore, September 27, 1900. Attended The Johns
Hopkins University, B.A., 1922, Ph.D., 1925; University
of Maryland Law School, LL.B., 1925. Admitted to the
Maryland bar, 1925. Member, American, Maryland
State, and Baltimore City Bar Associations; Lawyers'
Round Table; Rule Day Club; American College of Tri-
al Lawyers; American Judicature Society. Phi Beta
Kappa; Order of the Coif; Distinguished Alumnus of
the Year, University of Maryland School of Law, 1979.
Chairman, Grievance Commission, 1947-1948; director
and vice-president. Mental Hygiene Society of Greater
Baltimore; president. Bar Association of Baltimore City,
1947-1948. Instructor in Torts, University of Maryland
School of Law, 1925-1968; instructor in Advanced
Commercial Law, The Johns Hopkins University, 1926-
1955. Partner, firm of Piper, Watkins, and Avirett (now
Piper and Marbury), 1930. Widower; 1 child. Office ad-
dress: U.S. Courthouse, 101 W. Lombard St., Baltimore
21201; tel. 962-8319.

JOSEPH H. YOUNG. Appointed in 1971. Born in Ha-
gerstown, July 18, 1922. Attended Dartmouth College,
A.B., 1948; University of Virginia School of Law, LL.B.,
1951. Admitted to the Maryland bar, 1951. Served in the
U.S. Army Infantry, 1942-1946. Chairman of the
Board, American Cancer Society, 1978-1980. Married to
Doris Oliver Young; 3 children. Office address: 520
U.S. Courthouse, 101 W. Lombard St., Baltimore 21201;
tel. 962-2457.