J. FREDERICK MOTZ, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, since July 1985 (Chief Judge, October 21, 1994-October 26, 2001). Member, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney for District of Maryland, 1969-71. Member, Social Services Advisory Commission, Department of Social Services, Baltimore City, 1973-81. U.S. Attorney for District of Maryland, 1981-85. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 30, 1942. Wesleyan University, A.B., 1964; University of Virginia School of Law, LL.B., 1967. Law clerk to Judge Harrison L. Winter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1967-68. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1968. Member, American, Maryland State and Baltimore City Bar Associations; American College of Trial Lawyers; American Law Institute; Maryland Bar Foundation. Venable, Baetjer and Howard, 1968-69, 1971-81 (partner, 1976-81). Board of Trustees, Friends School of Baltimore, 1970-77, 1981-88; Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, 1987-97, 1999-. Member, Lawyers Round Table; Wednesday Law Club; Wranglers Law Club. Robert C. Heeney Award, Section on Criminal Law and Practice, Maryland State Bar Association, 2002. Office: (410) 962-0782.
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