Robert Bell
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Robert Mack Bell (born July 6, 1943) is an American lawyer and jurist from Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1991 he has been a judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, the highest court in Maryland, and its Chief Judge since 1996 and has been a judge at every level in the Maryland Courts system.
Bell was appointed to the court in 1991 by William Donald Schaefer, a Democrat. His current term expires in 2012.
Biography
Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, his parents soon moved to Baltimore, Maryland. While attending Dunbar High School there in 1960, Bell had his first experiences with the judicial system. He joined a group of students in a sit-in protest at a segregated restaurant. He was arrested, convicted of trespassing, and fined $10. His appeals went as far as the Supreme Court of the United States where he was represented by Thurgood Marshall and Jack Greenberg. While the case was returned to state courts, his conviction was ultimately reversed in 1965.
Bell graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in history from Morgan State University in Baltimore in 1966 and while there became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega. He went on to Harvard Law School where he earned his Juris Doctor in 1969. That same year he was admitted to the bar and began his practice in Baltimore. In 1975 he first became a judge in the District Court of Maryland, District 1, Baltimore City and served there until 1980. He was an Associate Judge, Baltimore City Circuit Court, 8th Judicial Circuit, 1980 to 1984 when he was appointed to the Court of Special Appeals in Maryland. Seven years later he was appointed to the state's highest court and became the chief justice in 1996. He was a member, Court of Appeals Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure from 1977 to 1982; Commission to Revise the Annotated Code of Maryland, 1980-82. Board of Directors, Judicial Institute of Maryland, 1982-84.
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