478/Maryland Manual

ROSZEL C. THOMSEN. U.S. District Court, 1954—.
Born in Baltimore, August 17, 1900. Attended The Johns
Hopkins University, A.B., 1919; University of Maryland,
LL.B., 1922. Admitted to the Maryland bar, 1922.
Served in the Student Army Training Corps. Member,
Maryland, Baltimore City, and American Bar Associa-
tions; Lawyers' Round Table; Rule Day Club. Member,
Judicial Conference of U.S., 1957-1964; chairman,
Standing Committee on Rules of Practice & Procedure of
Judicial Conference of the U.S., 1973-1980; member,
Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, 1959-1970,
1972-1973; member, Committee to Implement Criminal
Justice Act, 1964-1973 (chairman, 1972-1973); member,
Advisory Committee on Judicial Activities, 1969-1973;
member, Coordinating Committee on Multiple Litiga-
tion, 1962-1968; member, Committee on Administration
of Criminal Law, 1971-1973; president, Maryland State
Bar Association, 1972-1973. Awarded honorary doctor
of laws, Goucher College. Secretary, Maryland Board of
Law Examiners, 1943-1944; president, Board of Educa-
tion of Baltimore City, 1944-1954. Married; 3 children.
Office telephone: 685-3522.

R. DORSEY WATKINS. U.S. District Court, 1955—.
Born in Baltimore, September 27, 1900. Attended The
Johns Hopkins University, B.A., 1922, Ph.D., 1925;
University of Maryland Law School, LL.B., 1925. Ad-
mitted to the Maryland bar, 1925. Member, American,
Maryland State, and Baltimore City Bar Associations;
Lawyers' Round Table; Rule Day Club; American
College of Trial Lawyers; American Judicature Society.
Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif; Distinguished
Alumnus of the Year, University of Maryland School of
Law, 1979. Chairman, Grievance Commission,
1947-1948; director and vice-president. Mental Hygiene

Society of Greater Baltimore; president, Bar Association
of Baltimore City, 1947-1948. Instructor in Torts, Uni-
versity of Maryland School of Law, 1925-1968; instruc-
tor in Advanced Commercial Law, The Johns Hopkins
University, 1926-1955. Partner, firm of Piper, Watkins,
and Avirett (now Piper and Marbury), 1930. Widower; 1
child. Office telephone: 539-8319.

JOSEPH H. YOUNG. U.S. District Court, 1971—.
Born in Hagerstown, July 18, 1922. Attended Dartmouth
College, A.B., 1948; University of Virginia School of
Law, LL.B., 1951. Admitted to the Maryland bar, 1951.
Served in the U.S. Army Infantry, 1942-1946; bronze
star, purple heart. Member, Federal, American, Mary-
land State, and Baltimore City Bar Associations; Fourth
Circuit Judicial Conference. Member, Rule Day Club;
Lawyers Round Table; 14 Hamilton Street Club; honor-
ary member, National Lawyers Club of Washington.
Formerly associated with firms of Marbury, Miller, and
Evans and Piper and Marbury (partner, 1958-1971).
Instructor, Johns Hopkins University; McCoy College,
1954-1962. Board of Directors, Legal Aid Society,
1958-1971; CICHA (Health Appeal), 1964-1971. Board
of Directors, Maryland Division of American Cancer
Society, 1958— (chairman, 1969-1971, 1977-1980).
Chairman, Board of Directors, American Cancer Society,
1977-1980. Member, Oncology Advisory Council, Johns
Hopkins University; member, Executive Committee, In-
ternational Union Against Cancer, 1981—; member,
Dartmouth College Alumni Council. Recipient, Society
of Surgical Oncology Annual Layman's Award, 1982;
American Cancer Society Distinguished Service Award,
1983; Dartmouth College Alumni Award, 1983. Married;
3 children. Office telephone: 962-2457.