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 1961 / Served to 1965

C Ferdinand Sybert

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

C Ferdinand Sybert was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1982
Tenure: 1961–1965 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sybert authored 136 published opinions for the court (1961–1965), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Bean v. State (71 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. 131 of these were attributed to Sybert 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
1964	Bean v. State†	199 A.2d 773	71
1964	Kucharczyk v. State†	201 A.2d 683	68
1963	Prescoe v. State†	191 A.2d 226	68
1962	United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. National Paving & Contracting Co.†	178 A.2d 872	63
1963	Stevens v. State†	192 A.2d 73	61
1961	Levin v. Singer†	175 A.2d 423	57
1965	Vandegrift v. State†	206 A.2d 250	49
1962	Kennedy v. Cannon†	182 A.2d 54	48
1963	Fletcher v. State†	189 A.2d 641	47
1962	Kay Construction Co. v. County Council for Montgomery County†	177 A.2d 694	44
1964	Fabian v. State†	201 A.2d 511	42
1962	Maddy v. Jones†	186 A.2d 482	42
1965	Elmer v. State†	209 A.2d 776	40
1962	Boggs v. State†	179 A.2d 338	39
1961	Bradford v. Futrell†	171 A.2d 493	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 138 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 C Ferdinand Sybert on?: C Ferdinand Sybert was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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4 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).