Salmon is appointed to 2nd highest court

Prince George's Circuit Judge James P. Salmon was appointed to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals yesterday by Gov. William Donald Schaefer.

Judge Salmon, 54, who had been on the Circuit Court since 1988, fills the vacancy on Maryland's second-highest court created by the retirement earlier this month of Judge John J. Garrity.

The new appellate judge, who lives in University Park, was formerly an associate and partner in the Upper Marlboro law firm of Sasscer, Clagett, Channing and Bucher.

He has also been a panel attorney for the county public defender's office.