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 2009 / Active

Christopher Kehoe

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Christopher Kehoe is a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kehoe authored 101 published opinions for the court (2009–2026), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Troxel v. Iguana Cantina, LLC (41 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 Kehoe 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
2011	Troxel v. Iguana Cantina, LLC†	29 A.3d 1038	41
2010	Neal v. State†	991 A.2d 159	27
2009	Hicks v. State†	984 A.2d 246	21
2012	Fields v. State	36 A.3d 1026	19
2010	Powell v. Breslin	6 A.3d 360	17
2011	USA Cartage Leasing, LLC v. Baer	32 A.3d 88	16
2010	McCain v. State†	194 Md. App. 252	16
2010	Maryland Department of State Police v. Maryland State Conference of NAACP Branches· Concurrence†	988 A.2d 1075	14
2012	Buckley v. Brethren Mutual Insurance†	207 Md. App. 574	12
2010	Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. v. Clickner†	993 A.2d 1163	11
2013	Diggs v. State†	213 Md. App. 28	10
2010	Tri-County Unlimited, Inc. v. Kids First Swim School, Inc.	993 A.2d 146	10
2013	Guidash v. Tome†	211 Md. App. 725	9
2017	Gilroy v. SVF Riva Annapolis LLC	168 A.3d 1130	8
2016	Action Committee for Transit, Inc. v. Town of Chevy Chase†	145 A.3d 640	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 is Christopher Kehoe on?: Christopher Kehoe is a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

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17 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).