Governor Robert Ehrlich has named an openly gay judge to serve on the Baltimore District Court.

Erlich appointed 47-year-old Christopher Panos as a special master in the city Circuit Court family division to a fill a court vacancy.

Panos and his partner of 17 years, Dennis Cashen, are raising a young daughter, Cate.
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The governor’s appointment comes a little more than a week after he fired one of his appointees to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Robert J. Smith, for saying on a cable talk show that homosexuals lived a life of “sexual deviancy.”
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