Joseph_H._Young

Joseph H. Young

Joseph H. Young

American judge (1922–2015)

Joseph H. Young (July 18, 1922 – March 14, 2015) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

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Education and career

Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, Young was an infantryman in the United States Army during World War II, from 1942 to 1946. He received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Dartmouth College in 1948 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1951. He was in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1951 to 1971, and was an instructor at Johns Hopkins University from 1954 to 1964.[1][JHU_Law 1]

Federal judicial service

On July 19, 1971, Young was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland vacated by Judge Robert Dorsey Watkins. Young was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 29, 1971, and received his commission the same day.[1] He assumed senior status on August 1, 1987, and assumed inactive senior status on July 31, 2002.[2] Young died on March 14, 2015, in Baltimore of complications from a fall suffered two weeks before his death.[3]

Notes

  1. [J 1]
    The Federal Judicial Center indicates Young was an instructor at the J.H.U. School of Law, however, J.H.U. has never had a formal law school and its short lived Institute of Law functioned from the late 1920s to the early 1930s.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Joseph H. Young at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  2. [2]
    "Senior District Judge Joseph H. Young". United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Archived from the original on October 10, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  3. [3]
    Kelly, Jacques (March 15, 2015). "Judge Joseph H. Young dies at 92". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved March 16, 2015.

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