Patrick P. Spicer is a native of Harford County, Maryland.  Mr. Spicer is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame,  South Bend, Indiana, with honors, and is a graduate of the University of Maryland Law School.  He has served as legal counsel to the Board of Education of Harford County since 1989.  In addition to publishing articles relating to special education and the law, Mr. Spicer is also the author of two Harford County Historical Society Bulletins:  Decade of Delay – The Desegregation of Harford County Public Schools, Harford Historical Bulletins 105 and 107 (2007 & 2008).  He also is the author of a short story entitled “Spooze’s Shack – A Story of Harford County” published in 2011.