Joseph H. Young (July 18, 1922 – March 14, 2015) was a
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Education and career
Born in
Hagerstown,
Maryland, Young was an infantryman in the
United States Army during
World War II, from 1942 to 1946. He received an
Artium Baccalaureus
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degree from
Dartmouth College in 1948 and a
Bachelor of Laws from the
University of Virginia School of Law
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in 1951. He was in private practice in
Baltimore
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, Maryland, from 1951 to 1971, and was an instructor at
Johns Hopkins University from 1954 to 1964.
[The Federal Judicial Center indicates Young was an instructor at the J.H.U. School of Law, however, J.H.U. has never had a formal law school and its short lived Institute of Law functioned from the late 1920s to the early 1930s.]
Federal judicial service
On July 19, 1971, Young was nominated by President
Richard Nixon to a seat on the
United States District Court for the District of Maryland vacated by Judge
Robert Dorsey Watkins. Young was confirmed by the
United States Senate on July 29, 1971, and received his commission the same day.
He assumed
senior status on August 1, 1987, and assumed inactive senior status on July 31, 2002. Young died on March 14, 2015, in Baltimore of complications from a fall suffered two weeks before his death.
Notes
See also
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List of United States federal judges by longevity of service
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1922 births
2015 deaths
People from Hagerstown, Maryland
Dartmouth College alumni
University of Virginia School of Law alumni
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
United States district court judges appointed by Richard Nixon
20th-century American judges
United States Army soldiers
United States Army personnel of World War II
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