Joseph H. Young

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.

Joseph H. Young
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
In office
August 1, 1987 – March 14, 2015
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
In office
July 29, 1971 – August 1, 1987
Appointed byRichard Nixon
Preceded byRobert Dorsey Watkins
Succeeded byMarvin J. Garbis
Personal details
Born
Joseph H. Young

(1922-07-18)July 18, 1922
Hagerstown, Maryland
DiedMarch 14, 2015(2015-03-14) (aged 92)
Baltimore, Maryland
Political partyRepublican
EducationDartmouth College (A.B.)
University of Virginia School of Law (LL.B.)

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. 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.

References
  1. Joseph H. Young at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  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. Kelly, Jacques (March 15, 2015). "Judge Joseph H. Young dies at 92". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved March 16, 2015.

Sources
Legal offices
Preceded by
Robert Dorsey Watkins		 Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
1971–1987		 Succeeded by
Marvin J. Garbis


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