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JOHN CARROLL BYRNES
 Associate Judge, Baltimore City Circuit Court

Associate Judge, Baltimore City Circuit Court, 8th Judicial Circuit, since 1982. Delegate, Constitutional Convention of Maryland, 1967-68. Member, State Senate, 1971-82 (chair, legislative council special committee on real estate practices; member, Maryland port advisory committee; chair, higher education evaluation committee, 1979-80; chair & co-chair, Maryland commission on intergovernmental cooperation, 1975-82; vice-chair, finance committee, 1975-82). Chair, Herring Run Public Watershed Association Commission. Member, Commission to Revise Landlord-Tenant Laws, 1972-75; governing body, Central Maryland Health Systems Agency, 1975-77.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, September 1, 1939. Baltimore City parochial schools. Served in U.S. Army. Loyola College, B.S., 1961; University of Georgia; The Johns Hopkins University; University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., 1966. President, Student Bar Association, 1965-66. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1966. Private practice, 1966-82. Member, Maryland State and Baltimore City Bar Associations. Past member, Citizens' Commission on Maryland Government. Advisory Board, Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc.; Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Past vice-president, Loyola College Alumni Assoc. Adjunct faculty, Morgan State University, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Loyola College of Maryland, University of Baltimore. Secretary and board member, The Baltimore Courthouse and Law Museum Foundation, Inc. Board member, Glenwood Life Counseling, Alternative Directions, Juvenile Reading Project (chair), and Good Shepherd Center. Member, Wednesday Law Club. Outstanding Young Man of the Year, Baltimore Jaycees; St. Thomas More Man For All Seasons Award.

Compiled from the biographical files of the Maryland Manual, ©Maryland State Archives, February 11, 1999