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 1984 / Served to 2004

James Getty

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

James Getty was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1984–2004 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Getty authored 166 published opinions for the court (1979–2026), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Leese v. Baltimore County (96 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. 79 of these were attributed to Getty 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
1985	Leese v. Baltimore County	497 A.2d 159	96
1984	Virgil v. \	484 A.2d 652	55
1988	Hanscome v. Perry	542 A.2d 421	43
1991	Collier v. Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.	585 A.2d 256	42
2002	Boyd v. Bowen	806 A.2d 314	41
1983	Kennedy v. Kennedy	462 A.2d 1208	41
1984	Hines v. State	473 A.2d 1335	37
1990	Needle v. White, Mindel, Clarke and Hill†	568 A.2d 856	35
1985	Ward Development Co. v. Ingrao†	493 A.2d 421	34
1984	Dobbyn v. Dobbyn	471 A.2d 1068	32
1996	Downs v. ROMAN CATH. ARCHBISHOP OF BALT.	683 A.2d 808	31
1998	Adams v. Owens-Illinois, Inc.†	705 A.2d 58	29
1984	Fireman's Fund Insurance v. Rairigh†	475 A.2d 509	28
1996	Yonce v. Smithkline Beecham Clinical Laboratories, Inc.	680 A.2d 569	27
2001	Rouse-Fairwood Development Ltd. Partnership v. Supervisor of Assessments for Prince George's County	773 A.2d 535	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 169 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 James Getty on?: James Getty was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

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20 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).