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Robert Mack Bell (born July 6 , 1943 ) is an American lawyer and jurist from Anne Arundel County, Maryland . Since 1991 he as been a justice of Maryland 's State Supreme Court , and its Chief Justice since 1996 . Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina , his parents soon moved to Baltimore, Maryland . While attending Dunbar High School there in 1960, Bell had his first expriences with the judicial system. He joined a group of students in a Sit-in protest at a segragated restaurant. He was arrested, convicted of trespassing, and fined $10. His appeals went as far as the U.S. Supreme Court where he was represented by Thurgood Marshall . While the case was returned to state courts, his conviction was ultimately reversed in 1965. Bell graduated with a BA in history from Morgan State University in Baltimore in 1966 and while there became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega . He went on to Harvard Law where he earned his JD in 1969 . That same year he was admitted to the bar and began his practice in Baltimore. In 1975 he first became a judge in the Maryland District Court in Baltimore. Since then he has served at every level of the state court system. EXTERNAL LINK |
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