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 1934 / Served to 1943

Benjamin A. Johnson

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Benjamin A. Johnson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1943
Tenure: 1934–1943 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Washington College

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 130 published opinions for the court (1935–1942). Most cited: Sugarman v. State (75 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. 1 of these was attributed to Johnson 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
1937	Sugarman v. State	195 A. 324	75
1938	Virginia Dare Stores, Inc. v. Schuman	1 A.2d 897	44
1936	Staub v. Staub	183 A. 605	35
1940	Riegger v. Bruton Brewing Co.	16 A.2d 99	34
1940	Wintrobe v. Hart	13 A.2d 365	32
1941	Chayt v. Maryland Jockey Club	18 A.2d 856	31
1941	Tawes, Comptroller v. Williams	17 A.2d 137	30
1936	State, Ex Rel. Dunnigan v. Cobourn	187 A. 881	30
1940	Frankel v. State of Maryland	16 A.2d 93	27
1937	State v. Fleming	195 A. 392	27
1935	Hanlon v. Levin	179 A. 286	25
1941	Madge v. Fabrizio	20 A.2d 172	24
1939	Lawson v. Clawson	9 A.2d 755	22
1935	American-Stewart Distillery, Inc. v. Stewart Distilling Co.	177 A. 473	22
1941	Walter v. Board of County Commissioners	22 A.2d 472	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 130 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 Benjamin A. Johnson on?: Benjamin A. Johnson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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9 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).