BORN:  May 10, 1947.

EDUCATION:  University of Alabama School of Law, Juris Doctor, May, 1976; University of Alabama Graduate School of Commerce and Business, May 1976, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.); Purdue University, May 1969, Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

Elected District Judge of Mobile County on November 4, 1986 and took oath of office on January 20, 1987.  Re-elected District Judge in November, 1992, 1998 and 2004 without opposition.  In the fall of 1993, Judge McMaken was also assigned regular Circuit Court duty as Judge of the Mobile Drug Court and has presided over Drug Court cases in addition to his duties in the District Court since that time.

PRACTICE OF LAW:  

• Assistant District Attorney in the Tuscaloosa County District Attorney's Office until January 17, 1977.
• Assistant District Attorney in the Mobile County District Attorney's Office from January 1977 through March 1979.
• Fall 1977 to Summer 1979 taught University of South Alabama in the Criminal Justice Division of the Political Science Department.
• 1979 - 1987, Sole practitioner in general law practice in criminal and civil matters.
• Represented Mobile County Department of Human Resources, and the State of Alabama as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1979 through 1986:
  1. representation of the Mobile County Department of Human Resources (Child Welfare and Adult Protective Services) which cases were almost exclusively child custody actions involving abused and neglected children;
  2. Welfare Fraud cases for the Attorney General's Office; and
  3. writing appellate briefs for the State in appeals to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
• November 1971 to September 1972, Assistant to the National Marketing Manager Plastics Films Marketing Division of ICI AMERICA (subsidiary of IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES), Stamford, Connecticut, and Wilmington, Delaware.
• November 1969 until August 1971, ARMY AND AIR FORCE EXCHANGE SERVICE in retail management. Fort Rucker, Alabama, Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and New York Consolidated Exchange in Brooklyn, New York.

PUBLICATIONS:  Co-author - "Implementing Child Advocacy:  A Rational and A Basic Blueprint," Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 1990, Vol. 41, No. 2;
Co-editor - "Alabama Standard Guidelines for Developing Local Community Protocols for Intervention in Child Sexual Abuse," developed for Alabama's Children's Justice Task Force;

ORGANIZATIONS:  

• Member of Board of Directors of Goodwill-Easter Seals of the Gulf Coast, Inc.;
• Member of the Mobile Mental Health Board of Directors (Mobile County 310 Board);
• Member of the Technology Commission for the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts;
• Member of the Alabama Law Institute Committee to revise Warrant and Indictment Forms;
• Member of Downtown Rotary Club of Mobile, Alabama;
• Chairman of Clean Start (the Mobile Perinatal Substance Abuse Task Force);
• First President of the Board of Directors of THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER, INC.;
• Past Member of the Alabama Commission on Corrections, Sentencing & Law Enforcement;
• Past Member of Alabama Easter Seals Society, Inc;
• Past Member of Council of Inner City Mission for United Methodist Church;
• Past Member of Coalition for a Drug Free Mobile County Government Judiciary and Law Enforcement Sub-Committee;
• Past Member of the Administrative Board, Ashland Place United Methodist Church;
• Past Member of the Governor’s Alabama Drug Advisory Council;
• Past Chairman of the Administrative Board, Ashland Place United Methodist Church;
• Past Presiding District Court Judge;
• Past Member of the Children’s Justice Act Task Force;
• Served as 1996-97 Secretary of the Alabama District Judges’ Association;
• Served as 1995-96 Treasurer of the Alabama District Judges’ Association;
• Past Member of Mobile United;
• Past Member of U. S. and Mobile Power Squadrons;
• Past Chairman of the Mobile County Child Abuse Committee;
• Past member of the Multidisciplinary Team, which evaluates child abuse and neglect cases for the Department of Human Resources;
• Past member of The Council Against Domestic Violence for the First Congressional District;
• Past member of the Fact Finding Committee on Child Abuse for the Community Chest and Council of Mobile County;
• Past member of the Attorney General’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Domestic Violence;
• Past member of the Governmental Feasibility Task Force;
• Past member/Graduate of Partners in Policymaking Alabama, a nine-month training program for parents of children with disabilities;
• Past member of the Emergency Shelter Task Force under the direction of United Cerebral Palsy of Mobile, Inc.; and
• Past or present member of the Mobile, Alabama and American Bar Associations, the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Alabama State Bar Association, the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association and the Alabama District Judges Association.