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 1987 / Served to 1990

Albert T. Blackwell Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Albert T. Blackwell Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1925 · age 101
Tenure: 1987–1990 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Blackwell authored 38 published opinions for the court (1988–1990), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Collins v. State (87 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. 40 of these were attributed to Blackwell 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
1990	Collins v. State†	568 A.2d 1	87
1990	St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church, Inc. v. Smith†	568 A.2d 35	56
1988	Malcolm v. State†	550 A.2d 670	55
1988	State v. Colvin· Dissent†	548 A.2d 506	54
1988	Cox v. State†	534 A.2d 1333	54
1988	Brown v. State†	535 A.2d 485	51
1988	Wynn v. State· Dissent†	546 A.2d 465	49
1989	Montgomery County v. Valk Manufacturing Co.†	562 A.2d 1246	48
1988	Dean v. Pinder†	538 A.2d 1184	47
1989	State v. Mulkey†	560 A.2d 24	40
1989	Allstate Insurance v. Miller†	553 A.2d 1268	40
1988	State v. in Re Patrick A.†	540 A.2d 810	40
1989	Cassidy v. Board of Education†	557 A.2d 227	38
1989	Livingston v. State†	564 A.2d 414	34
1989	Wilson v. Morris†	563 A.2d 392	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 40 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 Albert T. Blackwell Jr. on?: Albert T. Blackwell Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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3 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).