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 1979 / Served to 1988

Edward O. Weant

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Edward O. Weant was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1988 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Weant authored 134 published opinions for the court (1979–1991), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Pemberton v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (70 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. 51 of these were attributed to Weant 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
1986	Pemberton v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.	502 A.2d 1101	70
1985	Moniodis v. Cook	494 A.2d 212	69
1985	Miller v. Montgomery County	494 A.2d 761	62
1981	Ohm v. Ohm	431 A.2d 1371	41
1980	Everhart v. Miles†	422 A.2d 28	38
1985	Muir v. State	498 A.2d 666	36
1988	Johnson v. Federal Kemper Insurance†	536 A.2d 1211	34
1987	Cardin v. State	533 A.2d 928	28
1981	Champion Ford Sales, Inc. v. Levine	433 A.2d 1218	28
1988	Ziegler v. Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.	539 A.2d 701	26
1984	Slack v. Villari	476 A.2d 227	26
1982	Maryland Port Administration v. C. J. Langenfelder & Son, Inc.	438 A.2d 1374	26
1985	Lyles v. State	492 A.2d 959	24
1980	State v. Temoney†	414 A.2d 240	24
1988	Hale v. Hale†	539 A.2d 247	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 135 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 Edward O. Weant on?: Edward O. Weant was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

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9 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).