Baltimore chief judge John Prevas dies at 63

Posted: 9:18 am Tue, October 26, 2010
By Associated Press

BALTIMORE — A city official says the chief judge of Baltimore’s Circuit Court, John Prevas, has died. He was 63.

Police department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tells The Baltimore Sun that an aide took Prevas to Mercy Hospital on Monday afternoon and he died later that evening. Guglielmi says Prevas is believed to have died of a heart attack.

The Baltimore native earned a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and a law degree from the University of Maryland. He was an assistant state’s attorney in Baltimore from 1972 to 1986 when he was named to the bench. He became chief judge in 2006.