HARRY A. COLE. Court of Appeals, 1977—. Bom in
Washington, D.C., January 1, 1921. Attended Balti-
more public schools; Morgan State College, A.B., 1943;
University of Maryland School of Law, LL.B., 1949.
Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1949. Member, Nation-
al, Maryland State, Baltimore City, and Monumental
City Bar Associations; American Judicature Society;
member. Executive Committee, Maryland Judicial Con-
ference, 1971. Justice of the peace, 1951; substitute
magistrate, 1952; assistant attorney general, 1953; asso-
ciate judge, Municipal Court of Baltimore City, 1967;
associate judge, Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1968-
1977. Maryland State Senate, 1954-1958. Alpha Phi Al-
pha Fraternity; Board of Managers, YMCA; life mem-
ber, NAACP; Executive Committee, U.S. National
Commission for UNESCO; first chairman, Maryland
Advisory Committee on Civil Rights to the U.S. Civil
Rights Commission; former member, Board of Direc-
tors, Maryland Multiple Sclerosis Society; Maryland
Citizens Planning and Housing Committee; Board of
Directors, Baltimore Zoological Society; member, The
Civitans; board member, Union Memorial Hospital,
Camp Fire Girls, and Baltimore Museum of Art; chair-
man, Board of Visitors, Morgan State College; presi-
dent, University of Maryland Law School Alumni As-
sociation. First Man of the Year, Alpha Phi Alpha;
First Alumnus of the Year, Morgan State College; Man
of the Year, NAACP; Man of the Year, Maryland
Beauticians; Man of the Year, A.M.E. Church. Married;
3 children.

JAMES F. COUCH, JR. Court of Appeals, 1982—.
Bom in Des Moines, Iowa, May 30, 1917. Attended
Western High School, Washington, D.C.; George Wash-

ington University; Washington College of Law at the
American University, J.D., 1941. Admitted to the
Maryland Bar, 1950. Served in the U.S. Army. Mem-
ber, Maryland State and Prince George's County Bar
Associations. Judge, District Court of Maryland, 1971-
1972; Circuit Court for Prince George's County, 1972-
1977; Court of Special Appeals, 1977-1982. Married; 1
child.

RITA CHARMATZ DAVIDSON. Court of Appeals,
1979—. Born in Brooklyn, New York, September 1,
1928. Attended Erasmus Hall High School; Goucher
College, B.A., 1948, LL.D., 1979; Yale Law School,
LL.B., 1951. Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar,
1952; admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1963. Member,
American, Maryland State, Montgomery County,
Womens, and District of Columbia Bar Associations;
National Association of Women Judges; American Judi-
cature Society. Former member, Montgomery County
Board of Appeals; Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission; Zoning Hearing Examiner for
Montgomery County. Secretary, Maryland Department
of Employment and Social Services, 1970-1972. Court
of Special Appeals, 1972-1979. Chairperson, Governor's
Commission on Jobs for Veterans; chairperson. Gover-
nor's Interagency Committee on Childhood Develop-
ment; Maryland Manpower Planning Council. Out-
standing Contribution by a Woman in the Field of
Law, New York Women's Bar Association; Maryland's
Distinguished Citizen's Award; Person of the Year
Award, Montgomery County Sentinel: Who's Who in
America; World's Who's Who of Women. Married; 2
children.