COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS


[photo, Christopher B. Kehoe, Court of Special Appeals Judge] CHRISTOPHER B. KEHOE, Judge, Court of Special Appeals, 1st Appellate Judicial Circuit (Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico & Worcester counties), since January 21, 2009. Chair, Judicial Ethics Committee, 2014-20, Judicial Council (member, 2012-20). Member, Advisory Committee to Explore the Feasibility of Maryland’s Adoption of the Uniform Bar Examination, 2016-17.

Assistant Public Defender, Talbot and Caroline Counties, 1981-82. Member, Second Circuit Trial Courts Judicial Nominating Commission, 1983-88. Member, Adult Guardianship Review Board, Talbot County, 1983-95. Town Attorney, Town of Easton, 1983-2008.

Member, State Board of Law Examiners, 1988-2008; Maryland Insurance Code Revision Review Committee, 1991. Vice-Chair, Task Force on Regulatory Reform, 1999-2001. Member, Select Committee to Study the Ethics 2000 Amendments to American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 2002-03; Maryland Judicial Campaign Conduct Committee, 2005-09. Board of Trustees, Maryland Historical Trust, 2000-04.


Tufts University, B.A., summa cum laude, 1975 (Phi Beta Kappa); Duke University School of Law, J.D., 1978. Law clerk to Judge Marvin H. Smith, Court of Appeals, 1978-79. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1978. Private practice, 1979-2009. Member, Maryland State Bar Association, 1979- (board of governors, 1986-87; committee on laws, 2002-); Talbot County Bar Association, 1979- (vice-president, 1994; president, 1995). Life Fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation (board of directors, 2007-). Maryland Leadership in Law Award, Daily Record, 2017.
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