During his last year in law school, Mr. Sachs
was an assistant instructor in Constitutional Law
at Yale College. He served as a law clerk to the late
Judge Henry Edgerton of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from
1960 to 1961. In 1961, Attorney General Robert
Kennedy appointed him an Assistant U.S. Attor-
ney. He served in that capacity until 1964.

From 1964 to 1967, Mr. Sachs was an associate
and partner in the law firm of Tydings, Rosenberg
& Gallagher. He served as reporter to the Commit-
tee on State Finance and Taxation of the State of
Maryland Constitutional Convention Commission
from 1965 to 1967.

After appointment as United States Attorney for
Maryland in 1967 by President Johnson, Mr. Sachs
concentrated on the prosecution of cases involving
white collar crime and public corruption. From
1970 until his election as Attorney General in
November 1978, he was in private law practice in
Baltimore.

Mr. Sachs, a Democrat, became Maryland's
fortieth Attorney General on January 2, 1979, and
was reelected in 1982.

Mr. Sachs was admitted to the Maryland Bar in
1960 and to the Supreme Court Bar in 1965. He
has served on the Boards of the Baltimore Urban
Coalition, Sinai Hospital, the Baltimore Regional
Red Cross, and the Baltimore Bar Foundation,
Inc. He taught Criminal Procedure and Trial
Practice at the University of Maryland Law School
from 1969 to 1976 and served on the Board of
Trustees of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Mr. Sachs is a fellow of The American College of
Trial Lawyers. He is the recipient of awards and
citations of merit from numerous civic organiza-
tions and educational institutions.

Mr. Sachs and his wife Sheila, an attorney, reside
in Baltimore with their children, Elisabeth and
Leon.

WILLIAM S. JAMES

State Treasurer

William S. James, the State Treasurer, was born
in Aberdeen, the son of E. Roy and Mary S. James,
on February 14, 1914. He attended the public
schools of Cecil and Harford counties. The Tome
School at Port Deposit, the University of Dela-
ware, and the University of Maryland School of
Law from which he received the degree of J.D. in
1937. He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in
1937 and practiced law in Bel Air from that date
until 1975. He served as a Trial Magistrate for
Havre de Grace between 1944 and 1946, when he
was elected to represent Harford County in the
House of Delegates. He served in that body until
1954 when he was elected to the State Senate,
serving continuously until 1975. In 1963 he was
elected President of the Senate and served in that
post until his retirement in 1975. Mr. James was
Second Vice-President of the Constitutional Con-
vention of 1967-1968, and in 1971 he became the
Chairperson of the Democratic State Central Com-
mittee of Maryland, a position he resigned after he
became State Treasurer. He was elected State
Treasurer in January 1975, in January 1979, and
again in January 1983 for terms of four years. Mr.
James has served as Chairman of the Commission
to Revise the Annotated Code since 1970.

Mr. James was married to the former Margaret
Higinbothom on January 16, 1954. They have one
son, Robert Roy, and a daughter, Mary Dulany