Howard S. Chasanow

Howard S. Chasanow (April 3, 1937 – April 2, 2017) was a justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1990 to 1999.

Biography Born in Washington, D.C., Chasanow received a BA from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1958, followed by a JD from University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where he was first in his class, in 1961, and an LLM from Harvard Law School in 1962. He was an assistant and deputy state's attorney after law school. He first became a judge in 1971, where he was a district court judge for Prince George's County. In 1990, Governor William Donald Schaefer appointed Chasanow to the Court of Appeals. Chasanow retired from the Court of Appeals in 1999. While a judge, he was also a lecturer at University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the National Judicial College at different points.

Personal life and death Chasanow was married to federal judge Deborah K. Chasanow until his death. He died in Baltimore in 2017, one day shy of his 80th birthday.