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 1907 / Served to 1909

Glenn H. Worthington

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Glenn H. Worthington was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1907. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1858–1934
Tenure: 1907–1909 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1907	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Worthington authored 35 published opinions for the court (1908–1909), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Strube (39 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. 1 of these was attributed to Worthington 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
1909	Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Strube	73 A. 697	39
1908	Cochran v. Preston	70 A. 113	38
1908	Whalen v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad	69 A. 390	35
1908	Mutual Life Insurance v. Mullan	69 A. 385	35
1908	Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Eichberg	68 A. 690	24
1909	Merchants & Miners' Transportation Co. v. Eichberg	71 A. 393	21
1909	Baltimore Refrigerating & Heating Co. v. Kreiner	71 A. 1066	21
1909	Maryland & Pennsylvania R. v. Silver	73 A. 297	20
1909	Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad v. Diffendal	72 A. 193	19
1908	Brown v. Reeder	71 A. 417	19
1909	Buck v. Brady	73 A. 277	18
1908	Stewart & Co. v. Harman	70 A. 333	18
1908	Chesapeake Brewing Co. v. Goldberg	69 A. 37	18
1909	Miller v. Fisher	73 A. 391	17
1909	Smith v. Woman's Medical College	72 A. 1107	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 36 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 H. Worthington on?: Glenn H. Worthington was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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2 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).