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M. WAYNE MUNDAY
January 11, 1931 -
Admitted to the Maryland Bar June 14, 1962
Law Practice 1962 - 1988 |
In 1962 the United States ordered the blockade of Soviet vessels bound for Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis); John F. Kennedy was President and Lyndon B. Johnson was Vice President of the United States; Pope John XXIII commenced the Second Vatican Counsel; James H. Meredith, escorted by Federal Marshals, registered at the University of Mississippi; the U.S. population was 186,537,737; the cost of a first-class stamp was $.04; Johnny Carson took over hosting duties of The Tonight Show; Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. orbited the earth three times in four hours and fifty-five minutes; Mariner II reached Venus; the University of Southern California was the National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Champion; Eleanor Roosevelt passed away.
In 1962, the population of Charles County, Maryland was 32,572 and on June 14, 1962 in Annapolis, Maryland M. Wayne Munday signed his name to page 81 of the Maryland Court of Appeals' Test Book certifying to his admission to the practice of law before all courts in the State of Maryland.
M. Wayne Munday was born and raised in Granite Falls, North Carolina. After receiving his undergraduate degree in 1952 from Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina, Mr. Munday pursued a graduate degree at Georgetown University until 1954 when he enlisted in the United States Marine Corp. Achieving the rank of Major, he completed his active duty in 1958 and returned to Georgetown where he was awarded a Juris Doctorem Degree from Georgetown University School of Law in 1961. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Munday began his legal career as an associate for Mudd & Mudd Attorneys rising to partner status in 1966.
Wayne Munday quickly found that his rural North Carolina roots provided an easy transplant to Charles County where he enthusiastically made his time and talents available to numerous civic, church, social and professional organizations.
Mr. Munday was a regular attendant at the Sunday services of the United Methodist Church of La Plata where he also chaired and served on numerous committees. Ecumenical long before the popularity of the term, he was a great friend and supporter of the Order of Discalced Carmelite Sisters residing at the La Plata Carmelite Monastery. Wayne Munday was likewise a dedicated member of the La Plata Lions Club, the La Plata Businessmen's Association and the Hawthorne Country Club also lending his abilities to each organization as well as numerous others to which he belonged.
He served as President of the Charles County Bar Association in 1975; from 1976 through 1979 he served as a member of the Maryland State Bar Association Inquiry Panel while assigned to the Office of the Maryland Attorney General where he was appointed Special Assistant Attorney General to the Panel.
As a member of the Maryland State Bar Association, Mr. Munday chaired its Ethics Committee and served as a member of the Attorney Grievance Panel. From 1977 through 1986, he served as a trustee of St. Mary's College of Maryland during which time he chaired the Management and Finance Committee of the College.
Following the death of Francis DeSales Mudd in 1972, Wayne Munday's contributions to the success of Mudd & Mudd Attorneys resulted in the addition of his name to the firm contemporaneously with the evolution of the partnership of Mudd & Mudd Attorneys to the "Professional Association" of Mudd, Mudd & Munday, P.A. in 1976.
In 1981 his skills as a civil trial lawyer were recognized by his induction as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.
In 1983 Wayne Munday resigned his position with Mudd, Mudd & Munday, P.A. to pursue a specialty niche which he had developed while representing Maryland Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland, formed to provide malpractice insurance coverage for Maryland healthcare practitioners. That same year he founded and became the senior partner of the Towson law firm of Munday, Sturman & Everton. His contributions and continued service to St. Mary's College of Maryland resulted in his induction to St. Mary's College's Order of the Ark & Dove in 1986.
During his residency in Southern Maryland, Mr. Munday developed an interest in cooking. After taking up residency in Towson, the long time devotion to his hobby resulted in his being named one of Maryland's Great Cooks by the Baltimore Sun in 1996.
Wayne Munday relates that one of his most memorable assignments as a country lawyer in Charles County involved his representation of the proprietress of a country store in a local waterfront community. A prior effort to renew the alcoholic beverage license for her business had failed. His services were retained to salvage the license. His client expressed great fear regarding the impending legal bill but was assured by her attorney that an agreement regarding the fee could be reached. When Mr. Munday's efforts achieved the renewal of the license, he told his client that his fee would be a quart of oysters (Her son was a waterman). She responded in spades, delivering a quart of oysters, every Friday for the remainder of the season. Wayne confesses that he did not share the oysters with his Partners and reports that he was very, very well paid for his services.
M. Wayne Munday currently resides in retirement with his spouse, Florence, in Ashville, North Carolina.