MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT

FORMER JUDGES


GARY EUGENE BAIR, Associate Judge, Montgomery County Circuit Court, 6th Judicial Circuit, January 13, 2012 to November 1, 2020. Retired November 1, 2020. Member, Criminal Law and Procedure Committee, 2012-14, Maryland Judicial Conference. Member, State Advisory Board for Juvenile Services, 2014-21. Vice-Chair, Montgomery County Mental Health Court Planning and Implementation Task Force, 2015-16. Chair, Criminal Law Subcommittee of Legislative Committee, Judicial Council, 2015-17.

Assistant Public Defender, Prince George's County, 1979-80. Assistant Attorney General, 1983-84. Chief, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, Office of Attorney General, 1984-87. Chief, 1987-2002, and Solicitor General, 2002-04, Criminal Appeals Division, Office of Attorney General.

Chair, Governor's Commission on the Death Penalty, 1992-93. Member, Article 27 Revision Committee, 1992-2004; Character Committee, State Board of Law Examiners, 2001-12.

Tulane University, B.A. (english; phi beta kappa), 1972; Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1976. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1976. Law clerk to Judge J. Dudley Digges, Court of Appeals, 1976-77. Director, Criminal Justice Clinic, Washington College of Law, The American University, 1977-79, 1980-82. Adjunct Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, The American University, 1989-; University of Baltimore School of Law, 1998-2006. Partner, Bennett & Bair, LLC, 2004-12. Member, Maryland State Bar Association, 1977- (criminal law & practice section council, 1989-, chair, 1995-96; legal education & admissions to the bar section council, 1992-2000, chair, 1997-98; appellate practice committee, litigation section, 1998-; committee on criminal pattern jury instructions, 1999-2010); Howard County Bar Association, 1989-2001; Montgomery County Bar Association, 2005-; Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys' Association, 2005- (2nd vice-president, 2011-12). President, Montgomery County Chapter, American Inn of Court, 2016-. Board of Directors, Howard County Sexual Assault Center, 1993-97.

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