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 1926 / Served to 1944

D Lindley Sloan

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

D Lindley Sloan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1926. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1874–1962
Tenure: 1926–1944 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1926	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Washington & Jefferson College

Judicial Record

In our data, Sloan authored 344 published opinions for the court (1897–1944), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Dal Maso v. County Commrs. (61 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. 28 of these were attributed to Sloan 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
1943	Dal Maso v. County Commrs.	34 A.2d 464	61
1930	Wentz v. State	150 A. 278	60
1937	Cohen v. State	195 A. 532	50
1930	Cumberland & Westernport Transit Co. v. Metz	149 A. 4	47
1934	Fink v. Steele	171 A. 49	45
1938	Board of Education v. Wheat· Concurrence	199 A. 628	44
1931	Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Roch	153 A. 22	44
1943	DAL MASO v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS†	182 Md. 200	43
1935	Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Riley	178 A. 250	39
1937	United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Continental Baking Co.	190 A. 768	38
1931	Webster v. People's Loan, Savings & Deposit Bank	152 A. 815	38
1944	Davis v. Gordon	36 A.2d 699	37
1932	Kartman v. Kartman	161 A. 269	36
1931	Caltrider v. Caples	153 A. 445	36
1930	McClees v. Cohen	148 A. 124	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 348 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 D Lindley Sloan on?: D Lindley Sloan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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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).