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 1924 / Served to 1942

Carroll T. Bond

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Carroll T. Bond was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1924. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1873–1943
Tenure: 1924–1942 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1924	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bond authored 432 published opinions for the court (1899–1942), plus 31 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Dickey v. Dickey (104 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. 42 of these were attributed to Bond 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
1928	Dickey v. Dickey· Concurrence	141 A. 387	104
1927	Nelson v. Seiler	139 A. 564	87
1937	Mayor of Baltimore v. State Ex Rel. Blueford· Concurrence	195 A. 571	83
1933	Coblentz v. State	166 A. 45	73
1930	Schneider v. Schneider	152 A. 498	70
1942	Henkelmann v. Metropolitan Life Insurance· Dissent	26 A.2d 418	61
1942	Ellicott v. Mayor of Baltimore	23 A.2d 649	61
1931	Lee v. State	157 A. 723	60
1930	Wentz v. State· Dissent	150 A. 278	60
1939	Chayt v. Board of Zoning Appeals	9 A.2d 747	58
1937	Warner v. Markoe	189 A. 260	55
1925	Goldman v. Crowther· Dissent	128 A. 50	55
1932	Sun Cab Co. v. Faulkner	163 A. 194	52
1936	University of Maryland v. Murray	182 A. 590	51
1942	Hardware Mutual Casualty v. Same	26 A.2d 393	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 472 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 Carroll T. Bond on?: Carroll T. Bond was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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18 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).