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

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1993 / Served to 2008

Irma S. Raker

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Irma S. Raker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 1993–2008 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Syracuse University

Judicial Record

In our data, Raker authored 292 published opinions for the court (1994–2020), plus 77 dissents and 41 concurrences. Most cited: Ferris v. State (231 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. 393 of these were attributed to Raker 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
1999	Ferris v. State†	735 A.2d 491	231
1994	State v. Albrecht†	336 Md. 475	213
2000	Philip Morris Inc. v. Angeletti†	752 A.2d 200	212
2007	Cochran v. Norkunas†	919 A.2d 700	187
2006	Myers v. Kayhoe†	892 A.2d 520	174
1997	Marriott Employees Federal Credit Union v. Motor Vehicle Administration†	697 A.2d 455	162
1996	Attorney Grievance Commission v. Glenn†	671 A.2d 463	159
2003	State v. Smith· Concurrence†	823 A.2d 664	144
1999	Klauenberg v. State· Dissent†	735 A.2d 1061	143
2000	Mayor of Baltimore v. Chase· Dissent†	756 A.2d 987	142
1999	Valentine v. on Target, Inc.· Concurrence†	727 A.2d 947	142
1995	Montgomery Ward v. Wilson· Concurrence†	339 Md. 701	141
2006	Schisler v. State· Concurrence†	907 A.2d 175	140
1999	Conyers v. State· Dissent†	729 A.2d 910	137
1995	American Motorists Insurance v. ARTRA Group, Inc.· Dissent†	338 Md. 560	136

Showing the 15 most-cited of 410 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 Irma S. Raker on?: Irma S. Raker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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15 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).