BALTIMORE CITY CIRCUIT COURT

FORMER JUDGES

MARTIN P. WELCH, Chief Judge, Baltimore City Circuit Court, 8th Judicial Circuit, October 26, 2010 to February 8, 2014 (Associate Judge since July 28, 1992). Retired February 8, 2014. Administrative Judge, Family and Juvenile Court, 1995-2006. Member, Juvenile Law Committee, 1999-2001 (chair, 1996-98), Maryland Judicial Conference. Member, Foster Care Court-Improvement Implementation Committee, 2004-06 (chair, termination of parental rights & permanency planning subcommittee, 2004-06). Circuit Representative, 8th Judicial Circuit, Conference of Circuit Judges, 2012-13.

Chief, Corporate Division, Department of Law, Baltimore City, 1987-92. Chair, State Advisory Board for Juvenile Justice, 1995-96. Member, Governor's Task Force on Children, Youth, and Families System Reform, 1996; Adoption Oversight Team, 1997-2000. Chair, Judges, Masters and Juvenile Justice Committee. Member, Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council, 2000-02.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1953. Attended Catonsville Senior High School; Frostburg State College, B.S. (political science & social science), 1974; University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., 1977. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1980. Mediator, The McCammon Group, 2015-. Member, Monumental City Bar Association. Member, Baltimore City Bar Foundation. Board of Advisors, Frostburg State University. Past president, Citizens Planning and Housing Association. Anselm Sodaro Judicial Civility Award, Maryland State Bar Association, 2019.

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