Martin O'Malley

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a federal district to become the national capital as permitted by... the U.S. Constitution. The District is therefore not a part of any U.S. state. It was formed from land along the Potomac River donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia; however, the Virginia portion was returned by Congress in 1846. A new capital city named after George Washington was founded in 1791 to the east of the preexisting port of Georgetown. Congress consolidated the City of Washington, Georgetown, and the remaining unincorporated area within the District under a single municipal government in 1871. The city shares its name with the U.S. state of Washington, located on the country's Pacific coast. Washington, D.C., had an estimated population of 617,996 in 2011. The city was the 24th most populous place in the United States as of 2010. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's population to over one million during the workweek.
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Catherine "Katie" Curran O'Malley is a Maryland state judge and wife of Martin O'Malley, the current Governor of Maryland, and former Mayor of Baltimore. She is also the daughter of former state Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr.. Her educational background includes attending high school at... Notre Dame Preparatory School and earning an undergraduate degree from Towson State University and a law degree from the University of Baltimore. While attending law school, she met and married fellow law student Martin O'Malley in 1990. She and her husband have four children, Grace, Tara, William, and Jack. Upon graduation from law school in 1991, she accepted a job as an Assistant State Attorney in Baltimore County, Maryland, serving in that post until her appointment as a judge. In August 2001, then-Governor Parris Glendening appointed her to a 10-year term, expiring in 2011, as an Associate Judge for the First District Court of Maryland, encompassing the city of Baltimore. O'Malley became First Lady of Maryland in January 2007 when her husband, Martin O'Malley, took office as Governor.
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