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KURT L. SCHMOKE
Mayor (Democrat), 1987-1999.

Member, White House Domestic Policy Staff, 1977-78. Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Maryland, 1978-82. State's Attorney, Baltimore City, 1982-87.

Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, 1987-99.

Member, Baltimore Metropolitan Council, 1992-99 (chair, 1994-95, 1999). Chair, Accountability, Compliance and Integrity Advisory Board, Prince George's County, 2011.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 1, 1949. Attended Baltimore public schools; Yale University, B.A. (history), 1971. Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar), Dipl., 1973; Harvard University School of Law, J.D., 1976. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1976; District of Columbia Bar, 2000. Attorney with Piper and Marbury, 1976-77; Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, 2000-2002. Dean, Howard University School of Law, 2003-. Acting Senior Vice-President of Academic Matters, Howard University, 2008-. Board of Directors, Legg Mason, Inc.; The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2006-; Children's Health Forum. Board of Trustees, Carnegie Corporation of New York. Chair, Board of Trustees, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (member, 2005-). Delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1996. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Advisory Board, National African-American Drug Policy Coalition. National Literacy Award, 1992. Honorary Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford, 2004. Married; two children

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