How do judges of the Appellate Court of Maryland reach the bench?

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

Appellate Court of Maryland / Joined 1970 / Served to 2000

Charles E. Moylan Jr.

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Charles E. Moylan Jr. was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1970–2000 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Moylan authored 912 published opinions for the court (1970–2025), plus 1 dissent and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Evans v. State (201 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. 294 of these were attributed to Moylan 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
1975	Evans v. State	349 A.2d 300	201
1975	Andresen v. State	331 A.2d 78	153
1997	Commercial Union Insurance v. Porter Hayden Co.†	698 A.2d 1167	106
1974	Stanley v. State	313 A.2d 847	101
1971	Walker v. State†	280 A.2d 260	87
1992	Lamb v. State†	613 A.2d 402	85
1982	Walker v. State	452 A.2d 1234	83
1984	Beye v. Bureau of National Affairs	477 A.2d 1197	79
1982	Continental Casualty Co. v. Mirabile	449 A.2d 1176	74
1990	Perkins v. State	574 A.2d 356	73
1971	Folk v. State	275 A.2d 184	73
2003	Morris v. State	837 A.2d 248	69
1988	Cassidy v. State†	536 A.2d 666	69
1975	Cummings v. State	341 A.2d 294	65
1974	Bel Pre Medical Center, Inc. v. Frederick Contractors, Inc.	320 A.2d 558	65

Showing the 15 most-cited of 919 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 Appellate Court of Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Charles E. Moylan Jr. on?: Charles E. Moylan Jr. was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

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30 years on the Appellate Court of Maryland. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).