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 1997 / Active

Deborah Eyler

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Deborah Eyler is a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, serving since 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: Since 1997 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, Eyler authored 118 published opinions for the court (2013–2026), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Sissoko v. State (680 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. 21 of these were attributed to Eyler 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
2018	Sissoko v. State	182 A.3d 874	680
2013	Clark v. Prince George's County†	211 Md. App. 548	28
2014	Tower Oaks Boulevard, LLC v. Procida	219 Md. App. 376	20
2015	Cash & Carry America, Inc. v. Roof Solutions, Inc.	223 Md. App. 451	17
2017	Women First OB/GYN Associates, L.L.C. v. Harris	161 A.3d 28	13
2018	Hallowell v. State	178 A.3d 610	11
2015	O'Brien & Gere Engineers, Inc. v. City of Salisbury	222 Md. App. 492	11
2019	Pinner v. Pinner	201 A.3d 26	10
2014	Clark v. State	218 Md. App. 230	10
2014	Doe v. Sovereign Grace Ministries, Inc.	217 Md. App. 650	10
2014	Hawes v. State	216 Md. App. 105	10
2018	Retina Grp. of Wash., P.C. v. Crosetto	183 A.3d 873	9
2017	Howard v. State	156 A.3d 981	9
2016	Rochkind v. Stevenson†	145 A.3d 570	9
2018	In Re: H.R., E.R. & J.R.	192 A.3d 822	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 119 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 Deborah Eyler on?: Deborah Eyler is a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

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29 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).