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 1942 / Served to 1951

Carlton Gus Grason

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Carlton Gus Grason was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1881–1953
Tenure: 1942–1951 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Grason authored 175 published opinions for the court (1874–1951). Most cited: Mugford v. Mayor of Baltimore (74 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. 46 of these were attributed to Grason 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
1945	Mugford v. Mayor of Baltimore	44 A.2d 745	74
1946	Mahoney v. Byers	48 A.2d 600	59
1948	Smith v. State	56 A.2d 818	57
1950	Debinski v. State†	71 A.2d 460	46
1951	Marlboro Shirt Co. v. American District Telegraph Co.†	77 A.2d 776	44
1943	Collier v. Collier	32 A.2d 469	43
1946	Jones v. State	45 A.2d 350	42
1943	Kendall v. Rogers	31 A.2d 312	41
1946	Nance v. Gall	50 A.2d 120	38
1949	Scott v. James Gibbons Co.	64 A.2d 117	32
1946	Butler v. Reed-Avery Co.	48 A.2d 436	27
1948	Beckwith MacHinery Co. v. Matthews	57 A.2d 796	26
1951	Gutman v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.†	81 A.2d 207	24
1943	Gathwright v. Mayor of Baltimore	30 A.2d 252	24
1950	Francis v. MacGill†	75 A.2d 91	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 175 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 Carlton Gus Grason on?: Carlton Gus Grason was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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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).