L. Leonard Ruben (1925 – March 21, 2007) was a

Montgomery County, Maryland Montgomery County is the most populous county in the state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 1,062,061, increasing by 9.3% from 2010. The county seat and largest municipality is Rockville, although the census-design ...

judge from 1974 until his death. He was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1970, vacating the seat upon appointment to the Montgomery County's District Court, where he served ten years. He served another 10 years on the Circuit Court until 1995 when he hit the state's mandatory retirement age of 70. At that point he continued as a part-time judge. He died after collapsing outside the district courthouse in Silver Spring, Maryland. At the time, he had been married for 58 years to

Ida Ruben Ida G. Ruben (born January 7, 1929) is an American politician who served in the Maryland House of Delegates from the 20th district from 1975 to 1987 and in the Maryland Senate The Maryland Senate, sometimes referred to as the Maryland State Se ...

, who filled his vacant House of Delegates seat in 1974, and remained in the state legislature until she lost a Democratic primary 22 years later, in September 2006.

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Washington Post obituary
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