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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1944 / Served to 1952

Charles Markell

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Charles Markell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1944. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1955
Tenure: 1944–1952 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1944	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Johns Hopkins University

Judicial Record

In our data, Markell authored 195 published opinions for the court (1945–1952), plus 32 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Hatfield (88 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. 100 of these were attributed to Markell 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
1951	State v. Hatfield†	78 A.2d 754	88
1949	Maguire v. State	65 A.2d 299	74
1949	Baltimore Radio Show, Inc. v. State Baltimore Broadcasting Corp.· Dissent	67 A.2d 497	73
1952	Madison v. State†	87 A.2d 593	68
1949	Wood v. State· Dissent†	65 A.2d 316	68
1948	Benner v. Tribbitt	57 A.2d 346	62
1948	Northwest Merchants Terminal, Inc. v. O'Rourke	60 A.2d 743	61
1948	In Re Meyerson	59 A.2d 489	61
1946	Belle Isle Cab Co. v. Pruitt· Dissent	49 A.2d 537	60
1945	Olewiler v. Brady	44 A.2d 807	60
1951	Fletcher v. Flournoy†	81 A.2d 232	59
1947	Cromwell v. Jackson· Dissent	52 A.2d 79	56
1951	Damasiewicz v. Gorsuch· Dissent†	79 A.2d 550	54
1947	Charlton Bros. Transportation Co. v. Garrettson	51 A.2d 642	54
1947	Staley v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.	56 A.2d 144	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 234 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 Markell on?: Charles Markell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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8 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).