Delegates/117

JOSEPH E. OWENS, Democrat, District 19. Bom in Washington, D.C., March 23,
1918. Attended Washington, D.C., public schools; Columbus University, LL.B., 1940,
LL.M., 1941. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1964. Retired Army officer. Member,
Commission to Study Judicial Branch; Equal Rights Commission; Commission to
Study Sovereign Immunity; Domestic Relations Commission; vice-chairman, Medical
Malpractice Committee; member, Criminal Justice Information Advisory Commission;

member. Task Force on the Drinking Driver. Member, 3C Democratic Club; member,
Maryland State Bar Association; treasurer, Montgomery County Bar Association
1970-1971; past president, Wheaton Woods Citizens' Association. Member, Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Retired Officers Association. Married.
Member of the House of Delegates since 1971. Chairman, Judiciary Committee since
1973. Member, Rules Committee, Court of Appeals. Member, Legislative Council
(now Legislative Policy Committee) since 1973. District office: Suburban Trust Bldg.,
Rockville 20850; tel. 424-9021. Annapolis office: 121 Lowe Bldg., 21401; tel.
841-3488.

RICHARD A. PALUMBO, Democrat, District 22. Born in Newark, N.J., August 19,
1938. Attended West Side High School, Newark, N.J.; University of Maryland, B.S.,
1963; University of Baltimore School of Law, LL.B., J.D., 1969. Attorney; currently in
private practice. Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County, 1969-1974;

State Democratic Central Committee, 1974-1978. Member, American, Maryland State,
and Prince George's County Bar Associations; National District Attorney's Associa-
tion; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Maryland State's Attorneys'
Association. Married to the former Wendy Sue Gygi. Member of the House of Dele-
gates 1979-1982. Appointed the Maryland Senate to fill vacancy and served 1982-1983.
Reelected to House of Delegates in 1982; member, Judiciary Committee. Chairman,
Joint Committee on Investigation. Member, Prince George's Citizens Advisory Com-
mittee, 1971-1976. Member, Tax Assessment Appeals Board. 1977-1979. District of-
fice: 3419 Stanford St., Hyattsville 20783; tel. 422-7737; Annapolis office: 207 Lowe
Bldg., 21401; tel. 858-3058, and 841-3075.

JOHN K. PARLETT, Democrat, District 28B. Born in Leonardtown, February 1,
1937. Attended St. Mary's Academy and Charlotte Hall Military Academy. Farmer.
Corporal, Maryland National Guard, 1953-1958. Vice-president, Board of County
Commissioners, St. Mary's County, 1974-1978 (served on Metropolitan Commission;

Board of Recreation and Parks; Commission on Aging; Transportation Committee;

County Building Committee; Greenwell State Park Advisory Committee; Tri-County
Council; Maryland Association of Counties Planning Committee); county negotiator
for State purchase of Charlotte Hall School property. Former member, Farm Bureau
Board of Directors; Soil Conservation Service Board of Supervisors; Metropolitan
Commission; Leonard Hall Junior Naval Academy Board of Trustees; Mechanicsville
Lions Club Board of Directors. Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, 1979—;

Judicial Nominating Commission, 1979—. Married; 7 children. Member of the House
of Delegates since 1981; member, Environmental Matters Committee. District office:

P. 0. Box 25, Charlotte Hall 20622; tel. 884-2345, 884-4337, or 274-3811. Annapolis
office: 216 Lowe Bldg., 21401; tel. 841-3247.

MARIAN L. PATTERSON, Democrat, District 26. Born in Wilmington, Delaware,
June 19, 1926. Attended Henry C. Conrad High School, Woodcrest, Delaware; Tem-
ple University; Goddard College, B.A., 1977. Member, Prince George's County Dem-
ocratic State Central Committee, 1978-1982; Board of Review, Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene, 1980-1982. Member, League of Women Voters; chairman of the
Board, Greater Southeast Community Hospital Foundation, 1974-1977; president,
Professional Health Services, 1980-1982; assistant regional director, National Confer-
ence of Christians and Jews, 1973-1976. Member, Blue Ribbon Study Committee on
School Desegregation, 1972; Prince George's County Superintendent of Schools Advi-
sory Committee on School Desegregation, 1973; Prince George's County Schools
Emergency School Assistance Act Advisory Committee, 1973-1976. Member, Oxon
Hill Democratic Club; John Hanson Women's Democratic Club; Democratic Club of
Prince George's County; Women's Political Caucus; Prince George's County Business
and Professional Women's Club; Corkran Memorial Methodist Church. Married; 2
children. Member of the House of Delegates since 1983; member, Environmental Mat-
ters Committee. District office: 5801 Walnut St., Temple Hills 20748; tel. 894-3130.
Annapolis office: 207 Lowe Bldg., 21401; tel. 841-3012; Washington metro area tel
858-3012.