# Hall Hammond > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hall_Hammond > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hall_Hammond.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_Hammond > Source revision: 1350916530 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American judge}} {{Infobox officeholder | birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|05|18}} | birth_place = [Baltimore](/source/Baltimore), Maryland, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1991|11|27|1902|05|18}} | office = [Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals](/source/Maryland_Court_of_Appeals) | office2 = [Attorney General of Maryland](/source/Attorney_General_of_Maryland) | successor = [Robert C. Murphy](/source/Robert_C._Murphy_(judge)) | predecessor = [Stedman Prescott](/source/Stedman_Prescott) | term_start = 1966 | term_end = 1972 | term_end2 = 1952 | term_start2 = 1947 | governor2 = [William Preston Lane Jr.](/source/William_Preston_Lane_Jr.)
[Theodore McKeldin](/source/Theodore_McKeldin) | predecessor2 = [William Curran](/source/William_Curran_(politician)) | successor2 = [Edward D. E. Rollins](/source/Edward_D._E._Rollins) }} '''Hall Hammond''' (May 18, 1902 – November 27, 1991) was an American jurist and politician who served as Chief Judge of the [Court of Appeals](/source/Maryland_Court_of_Appeals) and [Attorney General](/source/Attorney_General_of_Maryland) for the state of [Maryland](/source/Maryland). Hammond was born in [Baltimore, Maryland](/source/Baltimore%2C_Maryland) to William S. Hammond and Rosalie Hall Hammond. He received his early education from the [Gilman School](/source/Gilman_School), the Jefferson School, and [Baltimore City College](/source/Baltimore_City_College). He received his [A.B.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) degree from [Johns Hopkins University](/source/Johns_Hopkins_University) in 1923, and his [LL.B.](/source/LL.B.) degree in 1925 from the [University of Maryland School of Law](/source/University_of_Maryland_School_of_Law). He married Elizabeth Ashton Luck in 1934. Hammond's early legal career was with the firm of Willis & Hudgins, whom he worked for from 1925 to 1929. He began his own practice in 1929, which he maintained until 1952. He served as Deputy Attorney General of Maryland from 1938 to 1946, and as [Attorney General of Maryland](/source/Attorney_General_of_Maryland) from 1947 to 1952. He also served as Secretary of the Alcoholic Beverage Survey Commission from 1942 to 1943. Hammond was confirmed as an associate judge of the [Maryland Court of Appeals](/source/Maryland_Court_of_Appeals) in 1952, and, in 1966, he was confirmed as chief judge of the court. While on the court, he petitioned the government to create the [Maryland Court of Special Appeals](/source/Maryland_Court_of_Special_Appeals) to ease the workload of his court. He was also the first chief judge of the Court of Appeals to present to the [Maryland General Assembly](/source/Maryland_General_Assembly) a "State of the Judiciary" address. Hammond retired from the court in 1972, and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Children's Hospital School and South Baltimore General Hospital, amongst other things. ==References== *[http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001500/001521/html/msa01521.html Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912042812/http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001500/001521/html/msa01521.html |date=2009-09-12 }} from the Maryland Archives {{s-start}} {{s-legal}} {{succession box | before = [Stedman Prescott](/source/Stedman_Prescott) | title = [Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals](/source/Chief_Judge_of_the_Maryland_Court_of_Appeals) | years = 1966–1972 | after = [Robert C. Murphy](/source/Robert_C._Murphy_(judge))}} {{end}} {{CJ-MCoA}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hammond, Hall}} Category:1902 births Category:1991 deaths Category:20th-century Maryland state court judges Category:20th-century American lawyers Category:Baltimore City College alumni Category:Chief justices of the Supreme Court of Maryland Category:Gilman School alumni Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni Category:Lawyers from Baltimore Category:Maryland attorneys general Category:University of Maryland, Baltimore alumni {{Maryland-state-judge-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Hall Hammond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_Hammond) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_Hammond?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.