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 1952 / Served to 1972

Hall Hammond

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Hall Hammond was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1902–1991
Tenure: 1952–1972 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Johns Hopkins University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hammond authored 801 published opinions for the court (1952–2001), plus 34 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State Insurance Commissioner v. National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters (158 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. 746 of these were attributed to Hammond 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
1967	State Insurance Commissioner v. National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters†	236 A.2d 282	158
1953	Chisley v. State†	95 A.2d 577	147
1959	Allied American Mutual Fire Insurance v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles†	150 A.2d 421	117
1968	Hunt v. Montgomery County†	237 A.2d 35	107
1952	Ray v. Eurice†	93 A.2d 272	105
1958	Casey v. Roman Catholic Archbishop· Dissent†	143 A.2d 627	104
1966	Waldman v. Rohrbaugh†	215 A.2d 825	102
1968	Parish v. Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Ass'n· Concurrence†	242 A.2d 512	101
1957	Grant v. Mayor of Baltimore†	129 A.2d 363	100
1966	Director of Patuxent Institution v. DANIELS OF PATUXENT INSTITUTION†	221 A.2d 397	97
1968	Pat Perusse Realty Co. v. Lingo†	238 A.2d 100	92
1961	Snowden v. Mayor & CC of Baltimore†	168 A.2d 390	91
1966	Woodlawn Area Citizens Ass'n v. Board of County Commissioners†	216 A.2d 149	90
1965	Scott v. State†	208 A.2d 575	88
1964	Henson v. State†	204 A.2d 516	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 841 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 Hall Hammond on?: Hall Hammond was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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20 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).