Benson Everett Legg

Benson Everett Legg (born June 8, 1947) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Education and career Legg was born in Baltimore, Maryland. After receiving his education at the preparatory school Gilman School in Baltimore, graduating in the class of 1966, he earned an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Princeton University in 1970. He went on to obtain a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1973 and was admitted to the Maryland bar the same year. From 1973 to 1974, Legg was a law clerk to Judge Frank Albert Kaufman of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and then practiced law privately in Baltimore from 1975 to 1991. Federal judicial service