Martin O'Malley is an an American lawyer and former politician. He graduated from The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C. in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and from the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland in 1988 with a Juris Doctor degree. He was a councilman on the Baltimore City Council representing the 3rd district from 1991 to 1999. He was the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland from 1999 to 2007. He was the governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015.