JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSIONS

APPELLATE JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSION

Appointed by Governor: Jimmy A. Bell, Esq.; James T. Brady; Carville B. Collins, Esq.; Alice Coro Hoffman; Harry S. Johnson, Esq.; Martha G. Kavanaugh; Bonnie N. Luna; Raymond S. Smethurst, Jr., Esq.; Charles G. Winchester. Terms expire 2007.

Elected by lawyers in Circuit:
1st Appellate Circuit: Ernest Ivon Cornbrooks III, Esq.
2nd Appellate Circuit: Augustus F. Brown, Esq.
3rd Appellate Circuit: Arthur Schneider, Esq.
4th Appellate Circuit: John Paul Davey, Esq.
5th Appellate Circuit: Roger A. Perkins, Esq.
6th Appellate Circuit: Benjamin Rosenberg, Esq.
7th Appellate Circuit: Ronald Leslie Early, Esq.

c/o Administrative Office of the Courts
Maryland Judicial Center
580 Taylor Ave.
Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 260-1400
fax: (410) 974-2169
web: www.courts.state.md.us/judgeselect/judicialselection.html

The Appellate Judicial Nominating Commission was initiated by the Governor in 1970 and began functioning in 1971 as the Governor's Judicial Commission on Appellate Judicial Selection (Executive Order, July 6, 1970). In 1991, the Commission was reformed as the Appellate Judicial Nominating Commission (Executive Order 01.01.1991.05). The Commission nominates candidates for judges of the Court of Appeals and the Court of Special Appeals.

The Commission is composed of seventeen members (Executive Order 01.01.2003.09). The Governor, who chooses the chair, appoints six members of the Maryland Bar and four nonlawyer members. The remaining seven members are lawyers elected by the Maryland State Bar Association.

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