Walter Dorsey

Walter Dorsey (March 17, 1771 – July 31, 1823) was a Maryland politician and judge who served as a justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1817 to 1823.

Career Born in Maryland to Colonel John Dorsey and Mary Hammond Dorsey, Dorsey was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates representing St. Mary's County, Maryland, in 1794, and returned to that body representing the city of Baltimore in 1797. and by the time of his death, it was described as a "large and successful law school", such that when David Hoffman was appointed professor of law at the University of Maryland in 1814, he was unable to begin lecturing immediately due to the competition provided by Dorsey's program.

Personal life and death On July 8, 1795, Dorsey married Hopewell Hebb, with whom he had eight children. Dorsey died in Philadelphia at the age of 52.