Society of Senates Past
Roster

EDWARD S. NORTHROP
Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, since 1981
(Judge, 1961-70; Chief Judge, 1970-81).

Born in Chevy Chase, June 12, 1911.  Attended Woodberry Forest School, Virginia; George Washington University Law School, LL.B., 1937.

General Assembly:
Member of Senate, 1955-61 (Democrat; Montgomery County).  Majority Leader, 1959-61.  First Chair, Committee on Taxation & Fiscal Affairs.  Chair, Finance Committee.  Member, Legislative Council.  Chair, Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Cooperation.  Member, Commission of City-County Fiscal Relationships, 1959-60; Commission to Re-examine Public School Financing, 1960; Committee to Study the Problems Affecting the Laws Regulating Building, Homestead, and Savings and Loan Associations, 1960-61; Joint Commission to Study Passenger Carrier Facilities in the Washington Metropolitan Area, 1961.

Private Career and Other Public Service:
Board of Managers, Chevy Chase Village, 1932-33.  Superintendent of Public Service, Chevy Chase Village, 1933-41.  Served in U.S. Navy, 1941-45, in all theatres, achieving rank of commander (decorated by both Army and Navy).  Private practice of law in Chevy Chase until 1941; later associated with Lambert, Hart, and Northrop.  Organizer of Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, instrumental in establishing areawide mass transit commission.  Member, Committee on Administration of the Probation System, Judicial Conference of the United States; U.S. District Court Metropolitan Chief Judges' Conference (Past member, Steering Committee).  Advisory Corrections Council of the U.S., 1977-; Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, 1979-; State-Federal Judicial Council of Maryland (Chair, 1973-74); U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.  Distinguished Service Award, George Washington University Law School, 1975; Distinguished Citizen Award, State of Maryland, 1981; Service Award, Federal Bar Association; Special Merit Citation in recognition of outstanding service for improvement of the administration of justice, American Judicature Society, 1982; Distinguished Service Award, Maryland State Bar Association, Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Maryland Senate.

Compiled March 16, 2000  from the biographical files of the Maryland Manual, ©Maryland State Archives.