Maryland State Archives

The Bar Association of Baltimore City, Centennial Edition, The Daily Record, May 16,1980.

A Visitor's Guide to the Treasures in the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Courthouse Baltimore, Maryland, by James F. Schneider

The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City: Its Aims and Accomplishments, c. 1926, by Warren Wilmer Brown

Note only pages 33-48 contain information on the mural paintings in the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse

Alphabetical Index of Portraits in the Court Houses of the Circuit Court For Baltimore City. By James F. Schneider, December 1982

Speech by James F. Schneider at the Dedication of Courtroom 400 in the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Building; October 16, 1991

The Baltimore City Circuit Courthouses; Visitors Guide, 1992

Baltimore City Circuit Court Visitor's Guide: Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse; Maryland State Bar Association

We the People: The Bicentennial Ball, Celebrating the Constitution; September 26, 1987 Masterplan for the Restoration and Renovation of the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse; Richter Cornbrooks Gribble, Inc. Architects

Portraits In the Courthouse, by Joseph R. Byrnes; The Daily Record, March 23, 1936

The Names of the Great Lawyers on the Frieze of the Baltimore Supreme Bench Court Room by Hon. Henry D. Harlan; Baltimore: Maryland Historical Magazine Volume XXXVII, 1942, pp 255-272

Inventory of items in the Museum of Baltimore Legal History by Joseph Bennett of the Baltimore Bar Library, 1989

Space Requirements Report of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1969. Available online via University of Baltimore Library. Appendix D in 1989 Master Plan (not included in copy scanned above.)

A Walking Tour of the Clarence M. Mitchell Courthouse 2013 by Judge James Schneider and Master William Dunn

Note: for other important documents relating to the history of the Supreme Bench/Circuit Court of Baltimore City please see MSA SC 5339-135

The Story of the Library Company of the Baltimore Bar, by James F. Schneider
The Sesquicentennial of the Library Company of the Baltimore Bar,1840-1990, by James F. Schneider
A Commemoration of the Centennial of the Bar Association of Baltimore City 1880-1980, by James F. Schneider
Celebrating a Century of Service. The Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse

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Volume I 1906/04/23-1908/11/23

Volume II 1908/12/21-1914/12/29

Volume III 1915/1/15-1924/12/23

Volume IV 1925/1/12-1928/12/21

Volume V 1929/1/9-1932/12/22

Volume VI 1933/1/10-1934/12/22

Volume VII 1935/1/7-1938/12/39

Volume VIII 1939/1/3-1939/12/12

Voulume IX 1940/1/3-1941/12/15

General Index to Minutes of the Supreme Bench Balt. 1928-1938

General index to minutes of the Supreme Bench Balt. 1938-1945

Volume X 1942/1/7-1943/12/20

Volume XI 1944/1/1-1945/12/23

Volume XII 1946/1/1-1947/12/31

Volume XIII 1948/1/1-1950/9/21

Volume XIV 1950/9/28-1952/12/31

Volume XV 1953/1/1-1954/12/31

Volume XVI 1955/1/1-1955/12/31

Volume XVII 1956/1/1-1956/12/31

Volume XVIII 1957/1/1-1957/12/31/1957 [Volume # continues for next year]

Volume XVIII 1958/1/1/-1958/12/31 [Volume # continued from previous year]

Volum XIX 1959/1/1-1959/12/31

Volume XX 1960/1/1-1960/12/31 [Volumes is labeled as XXI]

Volume XXI 1961/1/1-1961/12/31 [Volumes is labeled as XXII]

Volume XXII 1962/1/1-1962/12/31 [Volumes is labeled as XXIII]

Volume XXIV 1963/1/1-1963/12/31

Volume XXV 1964/1/1-1964/12/31

NOTE: Volumes XXVI 1965 & XXVII 1966 are not in the collection.

Volume XVIII 1967/1/1-1967/12/31

Volume XXIX 1968/1/1-1968/12/31

Volume XXX 1969/1/1-1969/12/31

Volume XXXI 1970/1/1-1970/12/31

Volume XXXII 1971/1/1-1971/12/31

Volume XXXIII 1972/1/1-1972/12/31

Volume XXXIV 1973/1/1-1973/12/31

Volume XXXV 1974/1/1-1974/12/31/

Volume XXXVI 1975/1/1-1975/12/31

Volume XXXVII 1976/1/1-1976/12/31

Volume XXXVIII 1977/1/1-1977/12/31

Volume XXXIX 1978/1/1-1978/12/31

Volume XL 1979/1/1-1979/12/31

Volume XLI 1980/1/3-1980/12/19 [Volume is labeled XL]

Volume XLII 1981/1/8-1980/112/19

Volume XLIII 1981/1/8-1981/12/17

Volume XLIV 1982/1/5-1982/12/16

Volume XLV 1983/1/6-1983/12/15

Volume XLVI 1984/1/5-1986/12/11

Volume XLVII 1987/1/8-1989/12/12

Volume XLVIII 1990/1/4-1991/12/17

Volume XLIX 1992/1/9-1993/11/18

Volume L 1994/1/6-1997/12/4

Bench service dates are from:
"Histories of the Bench & Bar of Baltimore City" by John Carroll Byrnes, 1997

Allen, Davis(2)& Brown images need to be fixed (6-29-05) [CJK]

Milton B. Allen (1976-1986)
MSA SC 5590-4-3

Edaward J. Angeletti (1983- )
MSA SC 5590-4-5

Mary Arabian (1974-1990)
MSA SC 5590-4-6

Wilson A. Barnes (1963-1964)
MSA SC 5590-4-7

Solomon Baylor (1978-1986)
MSA SC 5590-4-8

Robert M. Bell (1980-1984)
MSA SC 5590-4-9

Elsbeth Levy Bothe (1978-1996)
MSA SC 5590-4-12

Roger W. Brown, Sr. (1987- )
MSA SC 5590-4-13

John Carroll Byrnes
MSA SC 5590-4-14

Hilary D. Caplan (1984- )
MSA SC 5590-4-16

Harry Cole (1921-1999)
MSA SC 5590-4-19

Andre Maurice Davis (1990- )
MSA SC 5590-4-21

Arrie W. Davis (1983-1990)
MSA SC 5590-4-22

Paul A. Dorf (1968-1983)
MSA SC 5590-4-26

M.Albert Figinski (1980-1980)
MSA SC 5590-4-29

Kathleen O'Ferrall Friedman (1985-)
MSA SC 5590-4-33

J. Harold Grady (1917-2002),
MSA SC 5590-4-37

Martin B. Greenfield (1975-1988)
MSA SC 5590-4-38

Robert I. H. Hammeman (1967-1968)
MSA SC 5590-4-39

John R. Hargrove (1923-1997)
MSA SC 5590-4-40

Charles D. Harris (1962-1976)
MSA SC 5590-4-43

Ellen Moses Heller (1986- )
MSA SC 5590-4-44

Ellen Lipton Hollander (1989- )
MSA SC 5590-4-47

Joseph C.Howard, (1922-2000
MSA SC 5590-4-48

Mabel Evelyn House Hubbard (1985- )
MSA SC 5590-4-49

Kenneth Lavon Johnson (1982- )
MSA SC 5590-4-50

Robert L. Karwacki (1973-1984)
MSA SC 5590-4-52

Thomas J. Kenney (1967-1968)
MSA SC 5590-4-53

Marshall A. Levin (1971-1987)
MSA SC 5590-4-56

Solomon Liss (1968-1976)
MSA SC 5590-4-57

David B. Mitchell (1984- )
MSA SC 5590-4-61

James W. Murphy (1970-1985)
MSA SC 5590-4-65

William J. O'Donnell (1964-1974)
MSA SC 5590-4-69

James A. Perrott (1965-1982)
MSA SC 5590-4-73

Joseph I. Pines (1980-1982)
MSA SC 5590-4-75

William D. Quarles (1996- )
MSA SC 5590-4-130

Richard T. Rombro (1989- )
MSA SC 5590-4-77

David Ross (1968-1996)
MSA SC 5590-4-78

George L. Russell, Jr. (1966-1968)
MSA SC 5590-4-79

Edgar P. Silver (1977-1988)
MSA SC 5590-4-83

Albert L. Sklar (1964-1981)
MSA SC 5590-4-84

George D. Solter (1968-1970)
MSA SC 5590-4-88

Marvin B. Steinberg (1985- )
MSA SC 5590-4-92

Gary I. Strausberg (1996- )
MSA SC 5590-4-131

Robert L. Sullivan, Jr. (1976-1977)
MSA SC 5590-4-95

Basil A. Thomas (1968-1983)
MSA SC 5590-4-98

Peter D. Ward (1980-1982)
MSA SC 5590-4-101

Thomas Ward (1982-1997)
MSA SC 5590-4-102

Robert B Watts (1922-1998)
MSA SC 5590-4-104

Thomas J.S. Waxter, Jr. (1996- )
MSA SC 5590-4-132

Edwin J Wolf (1967-1968)
MSA SC 5590-4-106

Bench service dates are from:
"Histories of the Bench & Bar of Baltimore City" by John Carroll Byrnes, 1997

Roland K. Adams (1934-1943)
MSA SC 5590-4-1

Joseph Allen (1895-1970)
MSA SC 5590-4-2

James M. Ambler (1912-1924)
MSA SC 5590-4-4

Carroll T. Bond (1911-1924)
MSA SC 5590-4-10

Duke Bond (1922-1938)
MSA SC 5590-4-11

Joseph Byrnes (1900-1971)
MSA SC 5590-4-15

Meyer M. Cardin (1961-1977)
MSA SC 5590-4-17

Joseph L. Carter (1952-1974)
MSA SC 5590-4-18

James K. Cullen (1952-1970)
MSA SC 5590-4-20

Samuel King Dennis (1874-1953)
MSA SC 5590-4-23

Edwin T. Dickerson (1937-1948)
MSA SC 5590-4-24

John J Dobler (1852-1923)
MSA SC 5590-4-25

Henry Duffy (1909-1926)
MSA SC 5590-4-28

Dulaney Foster (1959-1975)
MSA SC 5590-4-30

Robert France (1896-1952)
MSA SC 5590-4-31

Eli Frank, Sr. (1874-1958)
MSA SC 5590-4-32

Henry F. Garey (1867-1882)]
MSA SC 5590-4-34

Robery Gilmor, Jr. (1867-1882)
MSA SC 5590-4-35

James P. Gorter (1858-1939)
MSA SC 5590-4-36

Edwin Harlan (1909-1966)
MSA SC 5590-4-41

Henry David Harlan (1858-1943)
MSA SC 5590-4-42

William H. Henderson (1942-1944)
MSA SC 5590-4-45

Charles W. Heuisler (1908-1924)
MSA SC 5590-4-46

Shirley B. Jones (1925-
MSA SC 5590-4-51

Martin Lehmayer (1900-1909)
MSA SC 5590-4-54

Oscar Leser (1937-1938)
MSA SC 5590-4-55

Michael J. Manley (1896-1973)
MSA SC 5590-4-58

E. Paul Mason (1891-1968)
MSA SC 5590-4-59

Craig McLanahan (1938-1946)
MSA SC 5590-4-60

Judge Herman M. Moser (1900-1956)
MSA SC 5590-4-62

Charles E. Moylan, Sr. (1943-1967)
MSA SC 5590-4-63

Cornelius P. Mundy (1955-1956)
MSA SC 5590-4-65

Deeley K. Nice (1954-1956)
MSA SC 5590-4-66

Alfred S. Niles (1860-1926)
MSA SC 5590-4-67

Emory H. Niles (1892-1976)
MSA SC 5590-4-68

Eugene O' Dunne (1875-1959)
MSA SC 5590-4-70

Reuben Oppenheimer (1897-1982)
MSA SC 5590-4-71

Albert S.J. Owens (1862-1937)
MSA SC 5590-4-72

Charles E. Phelps (1833-1908)
MSA SC 5590-4-74

J. Gilbert Prendergast (1909-1973)
MSA SC 5590-4-76

Conway W. Sams (1862-1909)
MSA SC 5590-4-80

J. Abner Sayler (1937-1950)
MSA SC 5590-4-81

Joseph Sherbow (1901-1979)
MSA SC 5590-4-82

W. Conwell Smith (1887-1954)
MSA SC 5590-4-85

Anselm Sodaro (1956-1980)
MSA SC 5590-4-86

George A Solter
MSA SC 5590-4-87

Morris A. Soper (1914-1921)
MSA SC 5590-4-89

Robert F. Stanton (1916-1938)
MSA SC 5590-4-90

Charles F. Stein (1866-1939)
MSA SC 5590-4-91

H. Arthur Stump (1910-1934)
MSA SC 5590-4-94

J. Frank Supplee, Jr. (1934-1937)
MSA SC 5590-4-96

W. Stuart Symington, Jr. (1924-1926)
MSA SC 5590-4-97

John T. Tucker (1891-1967)
MSA SC 5590-4-99

Joseph N. Ulman (1924-1943)
MSA SC 5590-4-100

S. Ralph Warnken (1948-1961)
MSA SC 5590-4-103

Pere Lithbury Wickes (1892-1907)
MSA SC 5590-4-105

Portraits of judges on the fourth floor of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse, as of Summer 2005

Note: Judges Allison, Cox, Rasin and Young do not have images available at this time

Kaye A. Allison, current term expires 2015

Stuart R. Berger, current term expires 2015
MSA SC 5590-4-107

Evelyn O. Cannon, current term expires 2013
MSA SC 5590-4-108

Audrey J. S. Carrion, current term expires 2015
MSA SC 5590-4-109

Sylvester B. Cox, current term expires 2019

Bonita J. Dancy, current term expires 2011
MSA SC 5590-4-110

John M. Glynn, current term expires 2017
MSA SC 5590-4-111

Clifton J. Gordy, current term expires 2017
MSA SC 5590-4-112

Althea M. Handy, current term expires 2019
MSA SC 5590-4-113

Edward R. K. Hargadon, current term expires 2019
MSA SC 5590-4-114

Wanda K. Heard, current term expires 2015
MSA SC 5590-4-115

Marcella A. Holland, current term expires 2013

Albert J. Matricciani, current term expires Jr. 2011
MSA SC 5590-4-116

Joseph H. H. Kaplan, current term expires 2009
MSA SC 5590-4-134

Joseph P. McCurdy, Jr., current term expires 2007
MSA SC 5590-4-117

John Philip Miller, current term expires 2017
MSA SC 5590-4-118

M. Brooke Murdock, current term expires 2013
MSA SC 5590-4-119

Alfred Nance, current term expires 2013
MSA SC 5590-4-120

Thomas E. Noel, current term expires 2015
MSA SC 5590-4-121

W. Michel Pierson, current term expires 2019
MSA SC 5590-4-122

John N. Prevas, current term expires 2019
MSA SC 5590-4-123

Gale E. Rasin, current term expires 2006

Allen L. Schwait, current term expires 2013
MSA SC 5590-4-124

Carol E. Smith, current term expires 2009
MSA SC 5590-4-125

Paul A. Smith, current term expires 2007

Lynn K. Stewart, current term expires 2017
MSA SC 5590-4-126

John C. Themelis, current term expires 2005
MSA SC 5590-4-127

Shirley M. Watts, current term expires 2017
MSA SC 5590-4-128

Martin P. Welch, current term expires 2009
MSA SC 5590-4-129

David W. Young, current term expires 2011

Sketch of the Clarence M. Mitchell Courthouse, Calvert Street entrance
by Gregory Canaras

Baltimore Court House, 1/8 Scale General Drawings, Wyatt and Nolting Architects, Baltimore May 1895 rendering by W. Edward Leon, 1999 (#2)

Baltimore Court House, 1/8 Scale General Drawings, Wyatt and Nolting Architects, Baltimore May 1895
rendering by W. Edward Leon, 1999 (#1)

"The Old Courthouse Commemorative Plaque of the Ratification of the Declaration of Indepedence"

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,1915

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1915 #2

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1934

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1928

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1951

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, April 1955 Photograph

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, October 1956

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1961

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, May 1966

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1967

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1970

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1971

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1975

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1981

Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, 1982

Balitmore City Circuit Court, Judges 1986

Balitmore City Circuit Court, Judges 1989

Balitmore City Circuit Court, Judges 1993

Balitmore City Circuit Court, Judges 1997

Balitmore City Circuit Court, 1998

Balitmore City Circuit Court, 2001

Balitmore City Circuit Court, Judges 2005

University of Maryland School of Law Faculty, 1917
Note: The following Judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City: Eli Frank, J. P. Gorter, Joseph Ulman, Alfred S. Niles, Henry D. Harlan, Joseph C. France, Ed. T. Dickerson and Eugene O'Dunne.

Etching of Courthouse and Baltimore Battle Monument, by Don Swann, 1932

Mitchell Courthouse and Baltimore Battle Monument, Unknown artist.

Courthouse East and the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse, by Neil Hayes

Ink drawings of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City From the 1930s-1940s
by Charles W. Klipper: Court Reporter for the Court of Common Pleas Supreme Bench of Baltimore City

Maryland Court of Appeals 200th Anniversary, Stone

Photograph Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse, c.1900

Newspaper article, presentation of American Flags for all of the Courtrooms in the Baltimore City Courthouse, 1940;

Photograph of judges and others on the steps of the courthouse during the presentation of American Flags ceremony.

Daniel Dulany Jr. (1721-1797)
Charles Carroll (1723-1783)
Samuel Chase (1741-1811)
Luther Martin (1748-1826)
Alexander Hanson (1749-1806)
Gabriel Duvall (1752-1844)
William Kilty (1757-1821)
Robert Smith (1757-1842)
William Pinkney (1764-1822)
Robert Harper (1765-1825)
William Wirt (1772-1834)
William Winder (1775-1824)
Theodorick Bland (1776-1846)
Roger Taney (1777-1864)
John Nelson (1791-1860)
Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876)
William Schley (1799-1812)
John McMahon (1800-1871)
Thomas Alexander (1801-1871)
John H.B. Latrobe (1809-1891)
I. Nevitt Steele (1809-1891)
James Bartol (1813-1887)
John LeGrand (1814-1861)
Severn Teackle Wallis (1816-1894)

Note Volumes 4-14 are published by the Baltimore Courthouse and Law Museum Foundation Inc.

Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 1, 1987
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 2, 1988
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 3, 1989
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 4, 1990
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 5, 1991
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 6, 1992
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 7, 1993
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 8, 1994
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 9, 1995
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 10, 1996
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 11, 1997
Courthouse Chronicles, Volume 12, 1998
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 13, 1999
Courthouse Renovation News, Volume 14, 2000

Courthouse Beautification & Improvements, 1982-1999

1. Docket of the Supreme Bench 1868-1934
MSA SC 5603-5-51

2. Docket of the Supreme Bench 1869-
MSA SC 5603-5-52

3.Docket of the Supreme Bench 1897-1926
MSA SC 5603-5-53

4. Docket of the Supreme Bench 1926-
MSA SC 5603-5-54

5. Docket of the Supreme Bench 1935-1945
MSA SC 5603-5-55

6. Docket of the Supreme Bench 1946-1957
MSA SC 5603-5-67

7. Docket of the Supreme Bench 1958-
MSA SC 5603-5-56

Note these are handwritten bound volumes

Minutes of the Supreme Bench 1867-1890, volume #1,
MSA SC 5603-5-59

Minutes of the Supreme Bench 1891-1906, volume #2
MSA SC 5603-5-60

Minutes of the Supreme Bench 1915-1924, volume #4
MSA SC 5603-5-62

Minutes of the Supreme Bench 1925-1934, volume #5
MSA SC 5603-5-63

Minutes of the Supreme Bench 1943-1947, volume #8
MSA SC 5603-5-64

Minutes of the Supreme Bench 1953-1958, volume # 10
MSA SC 5603-5-65

Minutes of the Supreme Bench 1960-, volume #11
MSA SC 5603-5-66

Attorney's of the Supreme Bench 1867-
MSA SC 5603-5-61