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Christopher B. Kehoe
Prior offices:
Appellate Court of Maryland 1st Appellate Circuit
Years in office: 2009 - 2023
Successor: Stephen Hughes Kehoe (Nonpartisan)
Elections and appointments
Last election
November 3, 2020
Education
Bachelor's
Tufts University, 1975
Law
Duke University Law School, 1978

Christopher B. Kehoe was a judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland 1st Appellate Circuit. He assumed office on January 21, 2009. He left office on August 20, 2023.

Kehoe ran for re-election for judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals 1st Appellate Circuit (Historical). He won in the retention election on November 3, 2020.

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals became the Appellate Court of Maryland, following a 2022 constitutional amendment that changed the court's name.[1]

Education

Kehoe received his bachelor's degree from Tufts University in 1975 and his J.D. from Duke University Law School in 1978.[2]

Career

Kehoe began his legal career in 1978 as a law clerk to Judge Marvin H. Smith of the Maryland Court of Appeals. He then served as an assistant town attorney in Easton from 1979 to 1983. He became a town attorney in 1983, working for the Town of Trappe until 1995 and the Town of Easton until 2008. From 1980 to 1989, Kehoe served as an attorney for the Easton Board of Zoning Appeals. In 1981 and 1982, he worked as an assistant public defender in Talbot and Caroline counties. He served as a member of the Second Circuit Trial Courts Judicial Nominating Commission from 1983 to 1988 and the Talbot County Adult Guardianship Review Board from 1983 to 1995.[2]

Awards and associations

  • Maryland State Bar Association
    • Member
    • 1986-1987: Board of Governors
    • Committee on Laws
  • Talbot County Bar Association
  • Member
    • 1994: Vice president
    • 1995: President
  • Life Fellow and Board of Directors, Maryland Bar Foundation[2]

Elections

2020

Maryland Court of Special Appeals 1st Appellate Circuit (Historical)

Christopher B. Kehoe was retained to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals 1st Appellate Circuit (Historical) on November 3, 2020 with 83.6% of the vote.

Retention
 Vote
%
Votes
Yes
 
83.6
 
156,725
No
 
16.4
 
30,685
Total Votes
187,410

2010

Kehoe was retained to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals in the 2010 general election with 83.09 percent of voters in favor.[3]

Main article: Maryland judicial elections, 2010

Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Christopher B. Kehoe did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

See also

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