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 1969 / Served to 1982

J Dudley Digges

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

J Dudley Digges was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1912–1983
Tenure: 1969–1982 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Digges authored 476 published opinions for the court (1922–1982), plus 6 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Poffenberger v. Risser (310 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. 287 of these were attributed to Digges 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
1981	Poffenberger v. Risser†	431 A.2d 677	310
1981	Attorney General of Maryland v. Waldron†	426 A.2d 929	186
1982	Martens Chevrolet, Inc. v. Seney†	439 A.2d 534	185
1974	Maryland State Bar Ass'n v. Agnew†	318 A.2d 811	182
1978	Attorney General v. Johnson†	385 A.2d 57	169
1975	Department of Natural Resources v. Linchester Sand & Gravel Corp.†	334 A.2d 514	161
1980	James v. Prince George's County†	418 A.2d 1173	147
1970	Peterson v. Underwood†	264 A.2d 851	147
1982	Johnson v. State†	439 A.2d 542	143
1979	Hillard v. State†	406 A.2d 415	136
1973	Bar Ass'n v. Marshall†	307 A.2d 677	133
1981	Deering v. Deering†	437 A.2d 883	126
1977	Reyes v. Prince George's County†	380 A.2d 12	120
1981	Logan v. State†	425 A.2d 632	117
1973	State v. Roll and Scholl†	298 A.2d 867	117

Showing the 15 most-cited of 487 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 J Dudley Digges on?: J Dudley Digges was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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13 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).