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

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1999 / Former Justice

Glenn T. Harrell Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Glenn T. Harrell Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 1999 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Harrell authored 365 published opinions for the court (1999–2021), plus 59 dissents and 53 concurrences. Most cited: Lockshin v. Semsker (244 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. 418 of these were attributed to Harrell 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
2010	Lockshin v. Semsker†	987 A.2d 18	244
2010	RRC Northeast, LLC v. BAA Maryland, Inc.†	413 Md. 638	191
2000	Okwa v. Harper†	757 A.2d 118	191
2007	Hill v. Cross Country Settlement, LLC†	936 A.2d 343	172
2003	Cheek v. United Healthcare of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc.· Dissent†	835 A.2d 656	148
2003	State v. Smith· Concurrence†	823 A.2d 664	144
2007	Haas v. Lockheed Martin Corp.†	914 A.2d 735	143
2002	Walter v. Gunter· Dissent†	788 A.2d 609	143
2003	In Re Yve S.†	819 A.2d 1030	139
2000	Cartnail v. State†	753 A.2d 519	129
2000	Adamson v. Correctional Medical Services, Inc.†	753 A.2d 501	123
2009	Newell v. Runnels†	967 A.2d 729	120
2005	Harvey v. Marshall†	884 A.2d 1171	120
2003	Remsburg v. Montgomery†	831 A.2d 18	120
2015	Cunningham v. Feinberg	441 Md. 310	119

Showing the 15 most-cited of 477 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 Glenn T. Harrell Jr. on?: Glenn T. Harrell Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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26 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).