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DALE R. CATHELL, Judge, Court of Appeals, 1st Appellate Circuit (Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico & Worcester counties), since January 1998. Chair, Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Judicial Process, 2002-04.
City Attorney, City of Ocean City, 1970-76. Member, Worcester County Shoreline Commission, 1971; Charter Revision Committee, City of Ocean City, 1973; Utility Consumer Advisory Panel, 1978. Associate Judge, District Court of Maryland, District 2, Worcester County, 1980-81. Associate Judge, Worcester County Circuit Court, 1st Judicial Circuit, 1981-89. Judge, Court of Special Appeals, 1st Appellate Circuit (Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico & Worcester counties), 1989-98. Member, Family and Domestic Relations Law Committee, Maryland Judicial Conference, 1995-97. Past member, Executive Committee, Maryland Judicial Conference. Born in Berlin, Maryland, July 30, 1937. Attended Stephen Decatur High School. Served in U.S. Air Force, 1955-59. University of Maryland, 1962-64; Mt. Vernon School of Law, LL.B., 1967. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1967. Member, American, Maryland State, Baltimore City and Worcester County Bar Associations. Organizer, Legal Intern Program. Instructor (courts & the community), WOR-WIC Community College, 1973; Salisbury State University, 1978. Author, From Lands Over (2003). Recipient of numerous service to education awards.
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