Frederic N. Smalkin

Frederic N. Smalkin (born May 21, 1946) is a retired United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and is currently a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he was awarded the James A. May award for excellence in teaching and mentoring. Smalkin currently serves as the chair of the Maryland Environmental Service Board of Directors. He also has served as chairman of the Maryland Governor's Emergency Management Advisory Council and the Maryland Commission on Law Enforcement Body-Worn Cameras. He has served in the grade of brigadier general in, and has been the commanding general of, the Maryland Defense Force, as well as having served as a lieutenant colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary. He was also a captain in the Regular United States Army. Early life and education Smalkin was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His father was an attorney in Baltimore County, serving as President of the local Bar Association and as one of the first Judges of the People's Court for Baltimore County, before his death in 1958. Smalkin graduated from McDonogh School and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Johns Hopkins University, Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law, earning his Juris Doctor and was made a member of the Order of the Coif, having graduated first of his class. Military service Smalkin went to college and law school on a set of Army ROTC scholarships. He served as an officer in the United States Army (Regular Army) from 1968 until his honorable discharge, in 1976, earning the Meritorious Service Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster and achieving the rank of captain. Smalkin served in the Ordnance Corps with a detail to the Judge Advocate General's Corps, first in the Office of the Judge Advocate General and later as Assistant to the General Counsel of the Army, when he was appointed Recorder of the Army Contract Adjustment Board. He later became a rated pilot and Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil Air Patrol and was awarded its Distinguished Service Medal. He was commissioned in the Maryland Military Department and later promoted to Brigadier General and appointed by the Governor as commander of the Maryland Defense Force (State Guard). Upon relinquishing command of the Defense Force, he was awarded the State of Maryland Distinguished Service Cross.