ALEXANDER HARVEY II. U.S. District Court, Chief
Judge since 1986. Appointed in 1966. Born in Balti-
more, May 3, 1923. Attended Yale University, B.A.,
1947; Columbia University Law School, LL.B., 1950.
Served in the U.S. Army, 1943-1946, achieving rank of
1st Lieutenant; received Air Medal, Oak Leaf Cluster,
1945 European Theater of Operations. Admitted to the
Maryland bar, 1950. Member, American, Maryland
State, and Baltimore City Bar Associations; American
Judicature Society; Maritime Law Association; Coordi-
nating Committee for Multiple Litigation; Committee on
the Administration of the Criminal Law (chairman);
Speedy Trial Planning Group for Maryland. Assistant
attorney general for Maryland, 1955-1957. Member,
Maryland Club; Merchants' Club; Elkridge Club; Law-
yers' Round Table; The Wranglers. Married; 4 children.
Office telephone: 962-4655.

WALTER E. BLACK, JR. U.S. District Court, 1982-
Bom in Baltimore, July 7, 1926. Graduate of Harvard
University, A.B., 1946; Harvard Law School, LL.B.,
1949. Admitted to the Maryland bar, 1949. Member,
American, Maryland State, and Baltimore City Bar As-
sociations; Lawyers' Round Table; Rule Day Club;
Harvard/Radcliffe Club of Maryland; Harvard Law
School Association of Maryland. Assistant U.S. attorney
for District of Maryland, 1953-1955; U.S. attorney for
District of Maryland, 1956-1957. Chairman, Board of
Municipal and Zoning Appeals of Baltimore City,
1963-1967. Member, Mayor's Advisory Committee for
Workable Program for Community Improvement,
1963-1967; chairman, Subcommittee on Community
Planning Program, Mayor's Task Force on Civil Rights,
1965-1967; member, Jail Board of Baltimore City,
1971-1973; member, Governor's Commission to Revise
the Annotated Code, 1975-1982; member, Attorney
Grievance Commission, 1978-1982. Married; 3 sons. Of-
fice telephone: 962-0107.

JOHN RAYMOND HARGROVE, SR. U.S. District
Court, 1984-. Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Octo-
ber 25, 1923. Attended St. Catherine's Academy; Fred-
erick Douglass High School; Morgan State College;
Howard University, B.A., 1947; University of Maryland
School of Law, LL.B., 1950. Admitted to the Maryland
Bar, 1950. Served in the U.S. Army. Member, National,
Maryland State, Baltimore City, and Monumental City
Bar Associations; Character Committee, Court of Ap-
peals. Assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Mary-
land, 1955; deputy U.S. attorney, 1957-1962. Associate
judge of the Peoples Court, Baltimore City, 1962-1963;
associate judge for the Municipal Court, Baltimore City,
1968-1971; administrative judge, District 1 (Baltimore
City), District Court of Maryland, 1971-1974; associate
judge, Supreme Bench of Baltimore City (Circuit Court
for Baltimore City), 1974-1984. Married; 4 children. Of-
fice telephone: 962-0950.

JOSEPH C. HOWARD. U.S. District Court, 1979-.
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, December 9, 1922. Attended
the University of Iowa, B.A., 1950; Drake University
Law School, LL.B., 1955, M.A., 1957. Admitted to the

Maryland bar, 1959. Served in the U.S. Army,
1944-1947, achieving rank of 1st Lieutenant. Member,
American and Monumental City Bar Associations; Judi-
cial Council, National Bar Association; World Associa-
tion of Judges. Honorary law degree, Morgan State Col-
lege, 1972; first black in U.S. to be admitted to Phi
Alpha Delta National Legal Fraternity; Kappa Alpha
Psi Achievement Award, 1973; Man of the Year Award,
National Association of Negro Business and Profession-
al Women's Clubs, 1979; Baltimore City Council resolu-
tion in recognition of accomplishments, 1979; The Law-
yers' Wives Award, 1980. Assistant State's attorney for
Baltimore City, 1964-1968 (Chief of the Trial Section,
1966-1967); assistant city solicitor for Baltimore City,
1968; associate judge. Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,
1968-1979. Author of "Administration of Rape Cases in
the City of Baltimore and the State of Maryland"
(1968); "Why We Organize," Journal of Public Law
(1971); "Employment Practices in the Administration of
Justice Under the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,"
(1975); "Racial Discrimination in Sentencing," Judica-
ture (1975). Married; 1 son. Office telephone: 962-7724.

FRANK A. KAUFMAN. U.S. District Court, Senior
Judge. Chief Judge 1981-1986. Appointed in 1966. Born
in Baltimore, March 4, 1916. Attended Dartmouth Col-
lege, A.B., 1937; Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1940. Ad-
mitted to the Maryland bar, 1940. Member, Federal,
American, Maryland State, and Baltimore City Bar As-
sociations. Former partner in law firm of Frank, Bern-
stein, Conaway, Kaufman, and Goldman. Member,
Board of Governors, A.B.A.; Governor's Committee on
Higher Legal Education in Maryland, 1975-1976; Crim-
inal Rules Committee of the Judicial Conference of the
U.S., 1976-1980; chairman. National Conference of
Federal Trial Judges, Judicial Administration Division,
A.B.A., 1979-1980. Former lecturer on Administrative
Law, University of Baltimore, and lecturer on Con-
tracts, University of Maryland Law School. Author of
"The Maryland Ground Rent System," Maryland Law
Review (1940). Married; 2 children. Office telephone:
962-4360.

J. FREDERICK MOTZ. U.S. District Court, 1985-.
Born in Baltimore, December 30, 1942. Attended Wes-
leyan University, A.B., 1964; University of Virginia
School of Law, LL.B., 1967. Admitted to the Maryland
bar, 1968. Member, American Bar Association, Mary-
land State Bar Association, Baltimore City Bar Associa-
tion; American College of Trial Lawyers. Member, Ser-
geants' Inn; Wednesday Law Club. Law clerk to The
Honorable Harrison L. Winter of the U.S. Court of Ap-
peals for the Fourth Circuit, 1967-1968; Venable,
Baetjer and Howard, 1968-1969; Assistant United States
Attorney, District of Maryland, 1969-1971; Venable,
Baetjer and Howard, 1971-1981 (partner, 1976-1981);
United States Attorney, District of Maryland,
1981-1985. Member, Board of Trustees of Friends
School of Baltimore, 1970-1977, and since 1981; Advi-
sory Board to Baltimore City Department of Social
Services, 1973-1981. Married; 2 children. Office tele-
phone: 962-0782.