WILLIAM H. ADKINS II. Court of Appeals, 1986-.
Born in New York City, September 17, 1925. Albany
Academy, Albany, N.Y.; Williams College, A.B., 1949;
Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1952. Admitted to Mary-
land Bar, 1952. Served in U.S. Army, 1943-45. Member,
American, Maryland State, Talbot County and Second
Judicial Circuit Bar Associations; American Judicature
Society Institute of Judicial Administration; American
Bar Foundation; Maryland Bar Foundation. Phi Beta
Kappa (Williams); Order of the Coif (honorary), Uni-
versity of Maryland School of Law. Justice of the Peace
and Substitute Trial Magistrate, Talbot County,
1953-57; Court of Appeals Standing Committee on
Rules of Practice and Procedure, 1958-66, 1972-73;
State Board of Law Examiners, 1962-69, 1972; State
Commission on Human Relations, 1969-72 (chairman,
1969-70). Director, Governor's Commission to Revise
the Annotated Code, 1970-73 (revisor of statutes and
assistant director, Department of Legislative Reference,
1972-73). State Court Administrator, 1973-82. Associ-
ate Judge, Court of Special Appeals, 1982-86. Married;
4 children.

HARRY A. COLE. Court of Appeals, 1977-. Born in
Washington, D.C., January 1, 1921. Attended Baltimore
public schools; Morgan State College, A.B., 1943; Uni-
versity of Maryland School of Law, LL.B., 1949. Admit-
ted to Maryland Bar, 1949. Member, National, Mary-
land State, Baltimore City and Monumental City Bar
Associations; American Judicature Society; member, Ex-
ecutive Committee, Maryland Judicial Conference, 1971.
Justice of the peace, 1951; substitute magistrate, 1952;
assistant attorney general, 1953. Associate judge, Munic-
ipal Court of Baltimore City, 1967. Associate judge, Su-
preme Bench of Baltimore City, 1968-77. Maryland
State Senate, 1954-58. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity;
Board of Managers, YMCA; life member, NAACP; Ex-
ecutive Committee, U.S. National Commission for
UNESCO; first chairman, Maryland Advisory Commit-
tee on Civil Rights to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission;

former member, Board of Directors, Maryland Multiple
Sclerosis Society; Maryland Citizens Planning and
Housing Committee; Board of Directors, Baltimore Zoo-
logical Society; member, The Civitans; board member,
Union Memorial Hospital, Camp Fire Girls, and Balti-
more Museum of Art; chairman, Board of Visitors,
Morgan State College; president. University of Mary-
land Law School Alumni Association. 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.

JOHN C. ELDRIDGE. Court of Appeals, 1974-. Born
in Baltimore, November 13, 1933. Gilman School;
Harvard College, B. A., 1955; Harvard Law School;
University of Maryland School of Law, LL.B., 1959.
Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1960. Member, Maryland
Bar Association, Anne Arundel County Bar Association
and District of Columbia Bar; National Lawyers Club.
Member, Order of the Coif. Chief legislative officer, Of-
fice of the Governor, 1969-74; assistant chief, Civil Di-
vision, Appellate Section, U.S. Department of Justice,
1967-69. Married; 2 children.

JOHN F. McAULIFFE. Court of Appeals, 1985-. Bom
in Washington, D.C., November 4, 1932. Bethesda-
Chevy Chase High School; Montgomery College, A. A.,
1952; Washington College of Law, American University,
J.D., 1955. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1955. Served in
U.S. Army, 1955-57. Member, Maryland State and
Montgomery County Bar Associations; American Judi-
cature Society; faculty, American Academy of Judicial
Education; adjunct faculty, Washington College of Law
of the American University. Committing magistrate,
Montgomery County, 1954-55. Associate Judge, Circuit
Court, Montgomery County, 1972-85. Chairman,
Standing Committee on Rules, Court of Appeals of
Maryland, 1983-85; trustee, Montgomery-Prince