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Engaged Leadership Generations of M ryland's political lead rs trace the origin of their careers in public ervice to lesson chool of Law. By Bill Thompson THROUGHOUT HIS LONG AND STORIED POLITICAL career, U.S. Senator Charles "Mac" Mathias (,49) stood as a man of uncompromising principle, his calm and civil demeanor belying a willingness to fight tenaciously for his deeply held convictions. As a young city attorney in his rural hometown of Frederick, he worked with Juanita Jackson Mitchell ('50) to desegregate the city's '•.•.,"~.'."'-:;"-movie theater. As a freshman congressman in 1960, he authored ~~~~~~e!!~ and introduced the first federal anti-segregation legislation, helping pave the way for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As a three-term U.S. senator, first elected in 1968, Mathias con- tinued his steadfast support of civil rights, and time after time was an early and effective advocate for other similar measures-an end to hostilities in Vietnam, increased environmental protection, equal access to public education for children with developmental disabilities, and normalization of relations with the Soviet Union among them. While widely lauded today, these POSltlons were highly controversial and polarizing in their day. Solons of state: Charles" Mac" Mathias (left) served Maryland as a U.S. Senator for three terms; Joseph Tydings (right) spent six years in the Senate. Photo left: Bettmann/Corbis; Photo right: Charles H. Phillips/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images "It's vitally important that there be House of Delegates from 1956 until 1961, Maryland political leaders. People who people willing to undertake public serv- Tydings was appointed United States were interested in public service were ice. It's not an easy job. It's not just mak- Attorney for Maryland. He prosecuted drawn like magnets because they knew so ing speeches or casting courageous votes. corruption zealously, earning convictions many of the state's leaders had graduated It's doing the things that are necessary in for fraud against two Congressmen and . from the law school," says Tydings. terms of leadership, in being engaged the Speaker of the House of Delegates. The law school's tradition of attracting and involved," says Mathias, who, at age Tydings' reputation as a reformer helped and educating individuals destined for eighty-three, still maintains an office at him win election to the U.S. Senate in careers in public service continues today, the law firm Jones Day, overlooking the 1964, where he authored the bill that evidenced by the many graduates currently Capitol dome. created the federal magistrate system and holding or seeking elected office. As one For most of the twentieth century, the established himself as a national of the most visible campaign seasons in School of Law has been a leader in spokesman for progressive causes. recent Maryland history nears its conclu- preparing individuals to meet those chal- One of the Senate's leading proponents sion, two School of Law alumni-guber- lenges as political leaders-in their home- of higher education, Tydings has continued natorial candidate and current Baltimore towns, across Maryland, and nationally. that support since leaving public office, Mayor Martin O'Malley ('88) and U.S. For former U.S. Senator Joseph serving fifteen years on the University Senate hopeful Benjamin L. Cardin ('67)- Tydings ('53), the law school provided System of Maryland's Board of Regents. are playing leading roles. essential training that propelled a career "The University of Maryland law Both candidates will have to muster in public service. After serving in the school has been a major incubator for skills honed in previous campaigns-but, 25 JD FALL 2006 On the ballot: With their campaigns for Maryland's highest political offices, alumni Martin O'Malley and Ben Cardin are continuing a law school tradition. Clockwise from left: AP Photo/Matt Houston; STR/AFP/ Getty Images along with all alumni running for office classes. I scheduled as many classes as I participate in experiential education. The in 2006-likely also will draw from their could on Fridays and Mondays because result is the Cardin Requirement, which earliest days at the shoulder of political they were slow days in the General requires that all students provide legal veterans and the nascent political skills Assembly. And I took one night class." services on behalf of people and commu- whetted during their years as law students. He pulled it off-Cardin graduated first nities without access to justice. in his class. (Coincidentally, one of Cardin's "This is a law school that talks about mong the state's contemporary politi- classmates was Thomas V Mike Miller Jr., responsibilities, not just learning how to Acal families, perhaps none is better a member of the Maryland Senate since be a lawyer," Cardin says. "It's learning known than the Cardins. Ben Cardin has 1975 and the longest presiding Senate how to be personally responsible for represented the Third Congressional President in the history of the state.) changing your society, making it better." District since 1987. Before that, he served Soon after he left law school, the neo- in the Maryland House of Delegates from phyte delegate wrote to a number of his .S.Representative Congressman 1967 to 1986 and was speaker from 1979 instructors and solicited their advice. Cardin UElijah Cummings ('76), whose to 1986. His father, Meyer, who graduated particularly wanted to hear from Russell Baltimore district includes the School of from Maryland Law in 1929, served in the R. Reno, his properties teacher. "His impact Law, has a personal link to its educational House of Delegates, and Cardin's nephew, about good policy was clear to me then mission. After sixteen years in Maryland's Jon ('01), is a state delegate from and he was an incredible figure at the law House of Delegates-where he became the Baltimore City. school," Cardin says. "He would tell us the first African American named Speaker In 1967, Cardin found himself in a most convoluted problems with law and how we Pro Tern, the chamber's second highest unusual position. He was a final-year law had to be careful as lawyers and that we had position-and a decade of distinguished student and, at the same time, a freshman a responsibility ro try to change some of service in Congress, Cummings still mar- in the Maryland House. His uncle Maurice, the laws. I told him I had the chance to do vels at how his personal determination to who represented Baltimore's District 5, that and would he help me. He wrote me help better society unexpectedly led to a had decided against seeking reelection, back about a thirty-page letter of suggested career in politics. and his twenty-two-year-old nephew changes. I probably still have it somewhere." His selection as the first African quickly jumped into the race. Cardin had Years later, Cardin would have an American man named to the Moot Court to figure out how he could juggle class opportunity to return the favor, and influ- Board gave Cummings confidence and work and committee assignments. ence his alma mater. Chair of a special increased stature at the school. After grad- "It was difficult," Cardin recalled. "The commission to survey state legal services uating, he convened and led a group of dean wanted me to transfer to night school, and needs, Cardin and other panel seven African American students in study- and I didn't want to do that. I prevailed members recommended that Maryland ing for the bar exam. All of them passed. upon him that I would make enough Law students be given an opportunity to "This was unheard of at a time when JD FALL 2006 26 maybe 15 or 20 percent of African never read so much in my entire life," ontemporary UMLaw students with Americans were passing," Cummings says. O'Malley remembers. "I worked harder Can interest in shaping public policy "So people encouraged me to begin teaching than I had ever worked." And that's what can take advantage of educational offerings others the method I had used." he told his father. "He said, 'Then what that were not available to their predecessors While working full-time as a young makes you think your grades are going to fifteen or twenty years ago, according to attorney, Cummings dedicated his week- go up if you don't join the campaign?'" Kathleen Dachille ('92), assistant professor ends to training students to pass the bar, So O'Malley threw himself into the and director of the Legal Resource Center donating countless hours of his time in Mikulski campaign, splitting his time for Tobacco Regulation, Litigation, and service to his profession and community, between classes and canvassing the state Advocacy. The Legislation, Politics, and and his students soon compiled an for votes. Even when he wasn't on the road, Public Policy program combines traditional ourstanding pass rate. he says, he spent so much time making Word of his success reached Delegate campaign calls from a campus pay phone Lena Lee ('52), the first female African that when the phone rang, his fellow American lawyer to serve in Maryland's students assumed it was for him. House of Delegates. In 1982, after sixteen O'Malley was so busy in law school years in office, Lee had decided to retire that he gained a reputation among some and wanted Cummings to be her successor. professors as "bright bur in absentia," a "I asked her 'Why me?' and she said description that he acknowledges with a she had heard about the work I was doing laugh. "I was present in many places at the to help students, and that I was the kind same time.
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