List of Judges of the Maryland Court of Appeals

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The following are chronological lists of judges and chief judges of the Maryland Court of Appeals.

Name Term
Benjamin Rumsey 1778-1806
Jeremiah Townly Chase 1806-1824
John Buchanan 1824-1844
Stevenson Archer 1844-1848
Thomas Beale Dorsey 1848-1851
John Carroll LeGrand 1851-1861
Richard Johns Bowie 1861-1867
James Lawrence Bartol 1867-1883
Richard Henry Alvey 1883-1893
John Mitchell Robinson 1893-1896
James McSherry 1896-1907
Andrew Hunter Boyd 1907-1924
Carroll T. Bond 1924-1943
D. Lindley Sloan 1943-1944
Ogle Marbury 1944-1952
Charles Markell 1952
Simon Sobeloff 1952-1954
Frederick W. Brune 1954-1964
William L. Henderson 1964
Stedman Prescott 1964-1966
Hall Hammond 1966-1972
Robert C. Murphy 1972-1996
Robert M. Bell 1996 - pres

  • Benjamin Rumsey, 1778-1806
  • Benjamin Mackall IV 1778-1806
  • Thomas Jones, 1778-1806
  • Solomon Wright, 1778-1792
  • James Murray, 1778-1784
  • Richard Potts, 1801-1806
  • Littleton Dennis, 1801-1806
  • Jeremiah Townly Chase, 1806-1824
  • James Tilghman, 1806-1809
  • William Polk, 1806-1812
  • Richard Sprigg, 1806
  • Joseph Hopper Nicholson, 1806-1817
  • John Mackall Gantt, 1806-1811
  • John Buchanan, 1806-1844
  • Richard Tilghman Earle, 1809-1834
  • John Johnson, 1811-1821
  • John Done, 1812-1814
  • William Bond Martin, 1814-1835
  • Walter Dorsey, 1817-1823
  • John Stephen, 1822-1844
  • Stevenson Archer, 1823-1848
  • Thomas Beale Dorsey, 1824-1851
  • Ezekiel Forman Chambers, 1834-1851
  • Ara Spence, 1835-1851
  • William B. Stone, 1844-1845
  • Samuel M. Semmes, 1844-1845
  • Alexander Contee Magruder, 1844-1851
  • Robert N. Martin, 1845-1851
  • William Frick, 1848-1851
  • John Carroll LeGrand, 1851-1861
  • John Bowers Eccleston, 1851-1860
  • William Hallam Tuck, 1851-1861
  • John Thomson Mason, 1851-1857
  • James Lawrence Bartol, 1857-1883
  • Brice Goldsborough, 1860-1867
  • Silas Morris Cochran, 1861-1866
  • Richard Johns Bowie, 1861-1867; 1871-1881
  • Daniel Weisel, 1864-1867
  • Peter Wood Crain, 1867
  • James Augustus Stewart, 1867-1879
  • Richard Henry Alvey, 1867-1893
  • Richard Grason, 1867-1882
  • John Mitchell Robinson, 1867-1896
  • Oliver Miller, 1867-1892
  • Madison Nelson, 1867-1870
  • George Brent, 1867-1881
  • William Pinkney Maulsby, 1870-1871
  • Richard Johns Bowie, 1871-1881
  • Levin Thomas Handy Irving, 1879-1892
  • John Ritchie, 1881-1887
  • Daniel Randall Magruder, 1881
  • Frederick Stone, 1881-1890
  • George Yellott, 1882-1889
  • William Shepard Bryan, 1883-1898
  • James McSherry, 1887-1907
  • David Fowler, 1889-1905
  • John Parran Briscoe, 1890-1923
  • Henry Page, 1892-1908
  • Charles Boyle Roberts, 1892-1899
  • Andrew Hunter Boyd, 1893-1924
  • George Mitchell Russum, 1896-1897
  • James Alfred Pearce, 1897-1912
  • Samuel D. Schmucker, 1898-1911
  • James A. C. Bond, 1899
  • Isaac Thomas Jones, 1899-1907
  • Nicholas Charles Burke, 1905-1920
  • John G. Rogers, 1907
  • Winder Laird Henry, 1908-1909
  • William H. Thomas, 1907-1924
  • Glenn H. Worthington, 1908-1909
  • John R. Pattison, 1909-1934
  • Hammond Urner, 1909-1938
  • Henry Stockbridge Jr. 1911-1924
  • Albert Constable, 1912-1919
  • William H. Adkins, 1919-1934
  • T. Scott Offutt, 1920-1942
  • W. Mitchell Digges, 1923-1934
  • Carroll T. Bond, 1924-1943
  • Francis Neal Parke, 1924-1941
  • William C. Walsh, 1924-1926
  • D. Lindley Sloan, 1926-1944
  • Benjamin A. Johnson, 1934-1943
  • William Mason Shehan, 1934-1940
  • Walter J. Mitchell, 1934-1941
  • Edward S. Delaplaine, 1938-1956
  • Stephen R. Collins, 1940-1957
  • William H. Forsythe, 1941-1942
  • Ogle Marbury, 1941-1952
  • Ridgely P. Melvin, 1942-1945
  • C. Gus Grason, 1942-1951
  • Levin C. Bailey, 1943-1944
  • Rowland K. Adams, 1943-1944
  • Walter C. Capper, 1944
  • William L. Henderson, 1944-1964
  • Charles Markell, 1945-1952
  • Hall Hammond, 1952-1972
  • Simon E. Sobeloff, 1952-1954
  • Frederick W. Brune, 1954-1964
  • Stedman Prescott, 1956-1966
  • William R. Horney, 1957-1968
  • Charles C. Marbury, 1960-1969
  • C. Ferdinand Sybert, 1961-1965
  • Reuben Oppenheimer, 1964-1967
  • Wilson K. Barnes, 1964-1974
  • William J. McWilliams, 1965-1974
  • Thomas B. Finan, 1966-1972
  • Frederick J. Singley Jr. 1967-1977
  • Marvin H. Smith, 1968-1986
  • J. Dudley Digges, 1969-1982
  • Robert C. Murphy, 2nd Appellate Circuit, 1972-1996
  • Irving A. Levine, 1972-1978
  • John C. Eldridge, 5th Appellate Circuit, 1974-2003
  • William J. O'Donnell, 1974-1976
  • Charles E. Orth Jr., 1976-1980
  • Harry A. Cole, 1977-1991
  • Rita C. Davidson, 1979-1984
  • Lawrence F. Rodowsky, 3rd Appellate Circuit, 1980-2002
  • James F. Couch Jr., 1982-1987
  • John F. McAuliffe, 1985-1993
  • William H. Adkins II, 1986-1990
  • Albert T. Blackwell Jr., 1987-1990
  • Howard S. Chasanow, 4th Appellate Circuit, 1990-2002
  • Robert L. Karwacki, 1st Appellate Circuit, 1990-1998
  • Robert M. Bell, 6th Appellate Circuit, 1991-
  • Irma S. Raker, 7th Appellate Circuit, 1993-
  • Alan M. Wilner, 2nd Appellate Circuit, 1996-
  • Dale R. Cathell, 1st Appellate Circuit, 1998-
  • Glenn T. Harrell, Jr., 4th Appellate Circuit, 1999-
  • Lynne A. Battaglia, 3rd Appellate Circuit, 2002-
  • Clayton Greene, Jr., 5th Appellate Circuit, 2004-

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