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In Memoriam
Michael M. Goodman, J.D. ’68
Brooks B. Gracie III, J.D. ’93
David E. Griffin, J.D. ’91
Philip Doubleday Hale, J.D. ’56
Kathleen E. Hawkins, J.D. ’81, B.S. ’77
John E. Hennessey, J.D. ’65
Stephen C. Hosea, J.D. ’79
Nicolette T. Hunter, J.D. ’82
Michael Jabo Jr., J.D. ’70
Louis R. Kemp, LL.B. ’61
Brendon B. Kok, J.D. ’09
James P. Legory, J.D. ’68
Max H. Levenson, LL.B. ’60
Donald M. Lumpkins M.P.A. ’14, J.D. ’09
Thomas J. McLaughlin, J.D. ’86
Carol M. McGowan, J.D. ’87
Jennifer Dietrich Merryman, J.D. ’07
Dennis G. Olver, J.D. ’92
Vella R. Potash, J.D. ’74
Charles ‘Mike’ Preston, J.D. ’70
Samuel G. Puleo, J.D. ’77
Thomas G. Redman, J.D. ’72
Jack B. Rubin, J.D. ’64
Ronald L. Spahn, LL.B. ’67
Hon. John G. Turnbull II, J.D. ’66
Thomas D. Walsh, LL.B. ’60
Harvey B. Weeks Jr., J.D. ’72, B.S. ’50
Harry C. Weiskittel III, J.D. ’74 Dave R. West, J.D. ’81
Hon. Kenneth A. Wilcox, J.D. ’62 Charles F. Wilhelm, J.D. ’72 David M. Williams, J.D. ’66 Roger M. Windsor, LL.B. ’65 Kathleen E. Witte, J.D. ’81, B.S. ’77 Alan M. Wolf Jr., J.D. ’70
Brian W. Young, J.D. ’97
Harry Adler, J.D. ’82
Shivani K. Aghera, J.D. ’14
Julia Amos, J.D. ’01
Carl Randall ‘Randy’ Appel, J.D. ’74
Harold G. Applegarth, LL.B. ’51 David E. Baker, LL.B. ’68 Thomas K. Baxter, J.D. ’79 James G. Beach, III, J.D. ’79 Michael C. Brook, J.D. ’16
Rex S. Caldwell, III, J.D. ’87 Frank L. Calhoun, LL.B. ’62 Lester E. Carlson, J.D. ’73
John T. Carr, LL.B. ’66
Hon. J. Randall Carroll Jr., J.D. ’78 George L. Carter Jr., J.D. ’65 Jeffrey A. Cohen, J.D. ’79 Timmerman Daugherty, J.D. ’76 Bernard J. Deinlein Jr., J.D. ’70 Katrina Dennis, J.D. ’04
Donald A. Dunbar, J.D. ’73 Frederick F. Everhart, J.D. ’67 Antonio Ferrara, LL.B. ’62
Laura H. Foster, J.D. ’76
Roland M. Gardner, J.D. ’77 John R. Getz, J.D. ’78
Shirley Brannock Jones, J.D. ’46, the first woman to serve as a federal judge in Maryland history, died May 16, 2019 at the age of 93.
Described by observers as quietly forceful and well prepared, Jones was a judge on the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, now the Baltimore City Circuit Court, when President Jimmy Carter appointed her to a newly created seat on the U.S. District Court for Maryland on Oct. 5, 1979. Jones retired from the bench a little more than three years later, on Dec. 31, 1982.
Jones was described by many as a trailblazer for women. She graduated first in her class at UB Law, paying her tuition on a weekly basis from her stenographer’s salary. She began her law career as an attorney with the Maryland Department of Employment Security, where she stayed until taking a job as an assistant Baltimore city solicitor in 1952, according to published obituaries.
A native of Cambridge, Md., Jones became the first female assistant Maryland attorney general in 1958. In 1959, she became a judge on Baltimore’s Orphan’s Court, and two years later became the first woman on the city’s Supreme Bench. Jones also was a lecturer in legal ethics at UB Law from 1961 to 1968.
She won election to two 15-year terms and served until her appointment to the U.S. District Court in 1979. At the time of her 1982 retirement she told The Baltimore Sun, “I was
fortunate to come along at a time when the value of women lawyers was finally becoming appreciated. I haven’t had children, but I have nothing but admiration for the modern female lawyer who can practice and rear a family.”
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