Maryland State and Montgomery County Bar Associa-
tions; Maryland and District of Columbia Women's Bar
Associations. State delegate, Conference of State Trial
Judges of American Bar Association. Member, Board of
Governors, Maryland State Bar Association (chair, crimi-
nal law and practice section; chair, committee to draft
pattern jury instructions in criminal cases). Member, Exec-
utive Committee, Maryland Judicial Conference; National
District Attorneys Association. Assistant State's Attorney,
Montgomery County, 1973-79. Member, Montgomery
County Advisory Commission on Environmental Law,
1979; Montgomery County Commission on Battered
Spouses; Advisory Commission on Child Abuse and Ne-
glect. Board of Directors, Hebrew Home for Greater
Washington. Partner, Sachs, Grcenebaum, and Tayier.
Publication: The Right of the Police to Break and Enter:
No-Knock," American Umpersity Law Rmete (1970-71).
Adjunct professor, Washington College of Law. Recipi-
ent, American Judicature Book Award for Torts, Criminal
Procedure; Lura E. Turley Award from Washington Col-
lege of Law; Law Review, American University. Judge,
District 6, District Court of Maryland, 1980-82.

JAMES MAGRUDER REA. Prince George's County
Circuit Court, 7th Judicial Circuit, 1980—. Born in Wash-
ington, D.C., March 11,1924. Bladensburg High School;
University of Maryland, A.B., 1943; University of Mary-
land School of Law, LL.B., 1950. Admitted to Maryland
Bar, 1951. Served in U.S. Army. Member, American,
Maryland State and Prince George's County Bar Associa-
tions. Chairman, Democratic State Central Committee,
Prince George's County, 1966-69. Member, Trinity
Church, Upper Marlboro; Southern Maryland Society;
Marlborough Hunt Club. Judge, District 5, District Court
of Maryland, 1969-80.

EDWARD D. E. ROLLINS, JR. Cecil County Circuit
Court, 2nd Judicial Circuit, 1983—. Born in Baltimore,
March 29, 1932. Archmere Academy; attended Loyola
College, 1950-53; University of Maryland School of Law,
LL.B., 1956. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1956. Member,
American, Maryland State and Cecil County Bar Associa-
tions. Past president, Cedl County Bar Association; past
member, Character Committee and Grievance Committee,
Maryland State Bar Association. Member, Maryland Con-
stitutional Convention, 1967-68.

RICHARD T. ROMBRO. Baltimore City Circuit
Court, 8th Judicial Circuit, 1989—. Born in Brooklyn,
New York, January 13, 1929. Lycoming College, Wil-
liamsport, Pennsylvania; University of Maryland School of
Law, LL.B., 1953. Student Editor,Maryland Law Rmew.
Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1953. Served in U.S. Army.
Member, Maryland House of Delegates, 1958-62. Mem-
ber, Legislative Council, 1961-62. Member, Legislative
Council Committee to Study Capital Punishment. Mem-
ber, Governor's Commission on Provident Hospital.
Member, American, Maryland State and Baltimore City
Bar Associations.

DAVID ROSS. Baltimore City Circuit Court, 8th Judi-
cial Circuit, 1968—. Born in Washington, D.C., April
11, 1929. Attended public schools in Anne Arundel
County; Washington, D.C.; Chesterfield County, Vir-
ginia; and Petersburg, Virginia. University of Maryland
School of Law, LL.B., 1953. Admitted to Maryland Bar,
1953. Served in U.S. Marine Corps. Member, American,
Maryland State and Baltimore City Bar Associations;
National Conference of State Trial Judges; Maryland

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Conference of Circuit Judges (chairman, 1978-80). Fel-
low, Maryland Bar Foundation; American Bar Founda-
tion; American College of Probate Counsel. Chairman,
Court of Appeals Standing Committee on Rules of Practice
and Procedure, 1978-82. Member, Lawyers Round Table;
participant, 1969, and faculty advisor, 1972, National
Judicial College. Member, Board of Appeals, Department
of Employment Security, 1957-59. Member, Order of the
Coif.

DAVID GRAY ROSS. Prince George's County Circuit
Court, 7th Judicial Circuit, 1978—. Born in Quanah,
Texas, August 9, 1935. McKinley High School, Wash-
ington, 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 (Judge
Advocate General's Corps), after twenty-six years of
service. Member, Maryland State, Prince George's
County and District of Columbia Bar Associations. As-
sistant Corporation Counsel, District of Columbia,
1965-67. Associate County Attorney, Prince George's
County, 1967-68. Master of Juvenile Causes, Prince
George's County, 1968-70. Maryland House of Dele-
gates, 1970-78. Ap^med by the President to National
Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice, 1980.

L. LEONARD RUBEN. Montgomery County Circuit
Court, 6th Judicial Circuit, 1983—. Born in Brooklyn,
New York, March 24, 1925. McKinley High School,
Washington, D.C.; George Washington University,
A.B., 1951; George Washington University Law
School, LL.B., J.D., 1954. Admitted to Maryland Bar,
1965. Served in U.S. Navy, 1943-46. Member, Mary-
land State Bar Association (public awareness commit-
tee). Member, Montgomery County Ethics Commission.
Member, American Arbitration Association. Maryland
House of Delegates, 1970-74. Judge, District Court of
Maryland, Montgomery County, 1974-83.

THOMAS A. RYMER. Calvert County Circuit Court,
7th Judicial Circuit, 1987—. Born in Asheville, North
Carolina, February 10, 1925. Served in U.S. Navy in
World War II. University of Maryland; Cornell Univer-
sity, B.C.E., 1948; George Washington University
School of Law, J.D., 1955. Admitted to Maryland Bar,
1958. Town attorney for North Beach; attorney for
Calvert County Board of Education. Member and direc-
tor, Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland. State's
Attorney, Calvert County, 1966-70. Member, House of
Delegates, 1971-87 (chair, environmental matters com-
mittee; member, legislative policy committee; member,
rules and executive nominations committee; chair, Cal-
vert County delegation; majority whip, 1978-86).
JAMES PATRICK SALMON. Prince George's
County Circuit Court, 7th Judicial Circuit, 1988—. Born
in Easton, February 9, 1940. St. Vincent College, B.S.
(economics), 1962; University of Maryland School of
Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1965. Admitted to Mary-
land Bar, 1965. Member, American, District of Colum-
bia, Maryland State and Prince George's County Bar
Associations. Law clerk to Judge Charles C. Marbury,
Court of Appeals of Maryland, 1965-66. Associate,
Duckett, Orem, Christie & Beckett, 1966-69. Partner,
Sasscer, Clagett, Channing and Bucher, 1970-88 (asso-
ciate, 1969-70). Member, Maryland Bar Foundation,
1982—; American College of Trial Lawyers, 1985—.