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 1960 / Served to 1969

Charles C. Marbury

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Charles C. Marbury was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1991
Tenure: 1960–1969 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Johns Hopkins University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Marbury authored 322 published opinions for the court (1961–1969), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: Alvey v. Alvey (97 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. 316 of these were attributed to Marbury 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
1961	Alvey v. Alvey†	171 A.2d 92	97
1965	State Department of Health v. Walker	209 A.2d 555	88
1962	Yopps v. State†	178 A.2d 879	88
1965	Corbin v. State†	206 A.2d 809	78
1962	Bryant v. State†	185 A.2d 190	70
1965	Moulden v. Greenbelt Consumer Services, Inc.†	210 A.2d 724	67
1961	Presley v. State†	168 A.2d 510	65
1964	Davis v. State†	204 A.2d 76	57
1967	Department of Motor Vehicles v. Greyhound Corporation†	234 A.2d 255	50
1964	Suburban Properties Management, Inc. v. Johnson†	204 A.2d 326	48
1963	DeVaughn v. State†	194 A.2d 109	48
1968	Miller v. State†	247 A.2d 530	46
1966	Duffy v. State†	221 A.2d 653	43
1965	Pariser Bakery & State Accident Fund v. Koontz†	212 A.2d 324	43
1964	Tate v. State†	203 A.2d 882	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 327 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 Charles C. Marbury on?: Charles C. Marbury 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).