How do judges of the Supreme Court of Maryland reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1996 / Served to 2007

Alan M. Wilner

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Alan M. Wilner was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1937 · age 89
Tenure: 1996–2007 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Johns Hopkins University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilner authored 247 published opinions for the court (1997–2021), plus 28 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: DiPino v. Davis (240 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 292 of these were attributed to Wilner by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1999	DiPino v. Davis†	729 A.2d 354	240
2005	Hoffman v. Stamper†	867 A.2d 276	202
2000	Frederick Road Ltd. Partnership v. Sturm· Dissent†	756 A.2d 963	165
2002	Walter v. Gunter· Dissent†	788 A.2d 609	143
2006	Schisler v. State· Concurrence†	907 A.2d 175	140
2003	Remsburg v. Montgomery· Dissent†	831 A.2d 18	120
2002	Witte v. Azarian†	801 A.2d 160	112
1999	Shoemaker v. Smith†	725 A.2d 549	112
1997	Burch v. State†	696 A.2d 443	112
2007	Chaney v. State†	918 A.2d 506	110
2001	Buxton v. Buxton†	770 A.2d 152	102
2003	Friolo v. Frankel†	819 A.2d 354	100
2001	Werbowsky v. Collomb†	766 A.2d 123	99
2000	Langston v. Riffe· Dissent†	754 A.2d 389	98
2001	State v. Green· Concurrence†	785 A.2d 1275	94

Showing the 15 most-cited of 306 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Alan M. Wilner on?: Alan M. Wilner was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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10 years on the Supreme Court of Maryland. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).