Trial Lawyers Association; Maryland Trial Lawyers
Association. Married; 2 children.

RICHARD M. POLLITT. First Judicial Circuit,
1972—; Chief Judge and Circuit Administrative Judge.
Born in Allen, Wicomico County, April 30, 1927.
Attended Wicomico County Public Schools; Salisbury
State College, 1946; University of Maryland School of
Law, LL.B., 1949. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1949.
Member, Maryland State and Wicomico County Bar
Associations; delegate, National Conference of State
Trial Judges, 1975-1977. Special assistant attorney gener-
al, 1959-1972. Member, Lions Club; BPOE. Married; 2
children.

JOHN E. RAINE, JR. Third Judicial Circuit, 1956—;
Chief Judge. Bom in Towson, May 12, 1917. Attended
McDonogh School; Johns Hopkins University, A.B.,
1938; University of Maryland, LL.B., 1941. Admitted to
the Maryland Bar, 1941. Former member, American,
Maryland State, and Baltimore County Bar Associations.
State's attorney for Baltimore County, 1950-1956. Order
of the Coif; Omicron Delta Kappa; Man of the Year
Award, Greater Towson Chamber of Commerce, 1967.
Former president. Children's Aid Society; Exalted Ruler,
Towson Lodge Elks. Married; 2 children.

IRMA S. RAKER. Sixth Judicial Circuit, 1982—. Born
in Brooklyn, New York, April 24, 1938. Attended
Midwood High School; Syracuse University, B.A., 1959;
Washington College of Law, American University, J.D.,
1972. Attended Hague Academy of International Law,
1959. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1973. Member,
American, Maryland State, Montgomery County, and
District of Columbia Women's Bar Associations. Mem-
ber, Board of Governors, and chair. Criminal Law and
Practice Section, Maryland State Bar Association. Na-
tional District Attorneys' Association. Recipient, Ameri-
can Judicature Book Award for Torts, Criminal Proce-
dure; Lura E. Turley Award from Washington College of
Law; Law Review, American University. Assistant
state's attorney, Montgomery County, 1973-1979. Ad-
junct professor, Washington College of Law. Member,
Montgomery County Advisory Commission on Environ-
mental Law, 1979; Montgomery County Commission on
Battered Spouses; Advisory Commission on Child Abuse
and Neglect. Partner in law firm of Sachs, Greenebaum,
and Tayler. Publication: "The Right of the Police to
Break and Enter: No-Knock," American University Law
Review (1970-1971). Judge, District 6, District Court of
Maryland, 1980-1982. Married; 3 children.

GEORGE B. RASIN, JR. Second Judicial Circuit,
1960—; Chief Judge and Circuit Administrative Judge.
Born in Kent County, May 28, 1917. Attended Kent
County public schools; Washington College, A.B., 1937;
University of Maryland School of Law, LL.B., 1941.
Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1941. Served in the
Counter Intelligence Corps, Military Intelligence. Mem-
ber, American, Maryland State, Second Circuit, and
Kent County Bar Associations; American Judicature
Society. State's Attorney, Kent County, 1955-1956.
Maryland State Senate, 1956-1960. Man of the Year
Award, Maryland Parole Correctional Association, 1971.
Married; 2 children.

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JAMES MAGRUDER REA. Seventh Judicial Circuit,
1980—. Born in Washington, D.C., March 11, 1924.
Attended Bladensburg High School; University of Mary-
land, A.B., 1943; University of Maryland School of Law,
LL.B., 1950. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1951.
Served in the U.S. Army. Member, American, Maryland
State, and Prince George's County Bar Associations.
Chairman, Democratic State Central Committee, Prince
George's County, 1966-1969. Member, Trinity Church,
Upper Marlboro; Southern Maryland Society; Marlbor-
ough Hunt Club. Judge, District Court, District 5,
1969-1980. Widower; 4 children.

EDWARD D. E. ROLLINS, JR. Second Judicial Cir-
cuit, 1983—. Born in Baltimore, March 29, 1932.
Graduated from Archmere Academy; attended Loyola
College, 1950-1953; University of Maryland School of
Law, LL.B., 1956. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1956.
Member, American, Maryland State, and Cecil County
Bar Associations. Past president, Cecil County Bar
Association; past member, Character Committee and
Grievance Committee, Maryland State Bar Association.
Member, Maryland Constitutional Convention,
1967-1968. Married; 6 children.

DAVID ROSS. Eighth Judicial Circuit, 1968—. Born in
Washington, D.C., April 11, 1929. Attended public
schools in Anne Arundel County, Washington, D.C.,
Chesterfield County, Virginia, and Petersburg, Virginia;
University of Maryland, LL.B., 1953. Admitted to the
Maryland Bar, 1953. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Member, American, Maryland State, and Baltimore City
Bar Associations; National Conference of State Trial
Judges; Maryland Conference of Circuit Judges (chair-
man, 1978-1980); fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation,
American Bar Foundation, and American College of
Probate Counsel; chairman. Standing Committee on
Rules of Practice and Procedure, Court of Appeals of
Maryland, 1978-1982; member, Lawyers' Round Table;
participant, 1969, and faculty advisor, 1972, National
Judicial College. Member, Board of Appeals, Depart-
ment of Employment Security, 1957-1959. Member,
Order of the Coif. Married; 2 children.

DAVID GRAY ROSS. Seventh Judicial Circuit, 1978—.
Born in Quanah, Texas, August 9, 1935. Attended
McKinley High School, Washington, D.C.; George
Washington University; American University, B.S., 1960;
Washington College of Law; American University, J.D.,
1964. Served in U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserve;
retired as colonel, JAGC, after twenty-six years of
service. Member, Maryland State, Prince George's Coun-
ty, and District of Columbia Bar Associations. Assistant
Corporation Counsel, District of Columbia, 1965-1967;
Associate County Attorney, Prince George's County,
1967-1968; Master of Juvenile Causes, Prince George's
County, 1968-1970. Maryland House of Delegates,
1970-1978. Appointed by the President to the National
Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice, 1980. Married;
2 children.

L. LEONARD RUBEN. Sixth Judicial Circuit, 1983—.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, March 24, 1925. Attended
McKinley High School, Washington, D.C.; George
Washington University, A.B., 1951, LL.B., J.D., 1954.