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 1982

H Kemp MacDaniel

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

H Kemp MacDaniel was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1982 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, MacDaniel authored 67 published opinions for the court (1978–1982). Most cited: Funkhouser v. State (31 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. 24 of these were attributed to MacDaniel 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
1982	Funkhouser v. State	440 A.2d 1114	31
1981	State v. Lattisaw	425 A.2d 1051	25
1980	Loscomb v. State	416 A.2d 1276	25
1979	Lapelosa v. Cruze†	407 A.2d 786	20
1978	Dawson v. State	395 A.2d 160	20
1981	Embrey v. Holly	429 A.2d 251	19
1978	Watterson v. Edgerly	388 A.2d 934	19
1978	Reddy v. Mody	388 A.2d 555	18
1982	Harvey v. State†	441 A.2d 1094	17
1980	Dulaney Towers Maintenance Corp. v. O'BREY	418 A.2d 1233	17
1981	Tidler v. Tidler	435 A.2d 489	14
1980	State Department of Assessments & Taxation v. Glick	422 A.2d 34	14
1979	Widomski v. CHIEF OF POLICE OF BALTIMORE CTY.	397 A.2d 222	14
1980	Bishop v. Holy Cross Hospital of Silver Spring†	410 A.2d 630	13
1978	Harris v. State	387 A.2d 1152	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 67 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 H Kemp MacDaniel on?: H Kemp MacDaniel was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

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3 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).