Delegates/117

JOSEPH W. "DOC' O'MALLEY, Democrat, District 47. Born in Baltimore. Attended St.
Jerome's Elementary and Southern High School. Pour years night school, Business and
Commercial Law. Former conductor and yard foreman, B & 0 Railroad. Served 18 years as
local chairman, legislative representative, vice-president, and delegate to national convention
and chairman, Resolutions Committee, Maryland State Legislative Board for the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen and United Transportation Union. Fifteen years experience serving
Baltimore City Council as clerk, executive secretary, and sergeant at arms. Participated
extensively in amateur sport programs in the Brooklyn-Curtis Bay area. President, Bay Brook
Democratic Club. Married; 5 children. Member of the House of Delegates since 1979; member,
Economic Matters Committee. District office: 604 Jeffrey St., Baltimore 21225; tel. 355-4376.
Annapolis office: 322 Lowe Bldg., 21401; tel. 841-3319.

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;

Governor's Commission to Study the Liability of Public Employees; Governor's Commission
on Domestic Relations Laws. Vice-chairman, Medical Malpractice Committee. Member,
Criminal Justice Information Advisory Board; Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee; Task
Force on the Drinking Driver. Member, Court of Appeals Standing Committee on Rules of
Practice and Procedure. Member, Sentencing Guidelines Committee. Member, 3C Democratic
Club; member, Maryland State Bar Association; treasurer, Montgomery County Bar Associa-
tion 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
and Executive Nominations Committee. 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. Bom 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 Association; National Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers; Maryland State's Attorneys' Association. Member, Prince
George's Citizens Advisory Committee, 1971-1976. Member, Tax Assessment Appeals Board,
1977-1979. Married. Member of the House of Delegates 1979-1982. Appointed to 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. District
office: 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. Bom in Leonardtown, February 1, 1937.
Attended St. Mary's Academy and Charlotte Hall Military Academy. Fanner. 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; Leonard Hall Junior Naval Academy Board of Trustees; Mechanicsville Lions
Club Board of Directors. Member, Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, 1979—;

Judicial Nominating Commission, 1979—; Maryland Heritage Committee. 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-^337, or
274-3811. Annapolis office: 216 Lowe Bldg., 21401; tel. 841-3247.