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 1997 / Served to 2007

James Kenney

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

James Kenney was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1937 · age 89
Tenure: 1997–2007 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Dickinson College
George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Kenney authored 162 published opinions for the court (1997–2026), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Sass v. Andrew (92 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. 69 of these were attributed to Kenney 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
2003	Sass v. Andrew	832 A.2d 247	92
2005	Mitchell v. Baltimore Sun Co.	883 A.2d 1008	43
1998	Lopata v. Miller	712 A.2d 24	42
2001	Herbert v. State	766 A.2d 190	32
2010	Morris v. State	993 A.2d 716	30
2001	Committee for Responsible Development on 25th Street v. Mayor of Baltimore†	767 A.2d 906	28
2006	Cattail Associates, Inc. v. Sass†	907 A.2d 828	26
2003	Prince George's County v. Washington Post Co.†	815 A.2d 859	25
2002	Collins v. Collins†	798 A.2d 1155	25
2006	Higginbotham v. Public Service Commission	909 A.2d 1087	24
2006	Walker v. Grow†	907 A.2d 255	24
2003	Darcars Motors of Silver Spring, Inc. v. Borzym	818 A.2d 1159	23
2002	Bond v. State	788 A.2d 705	22
2000	Stover v. Prince George's County†	752 A.2d 686	22
1999	Andy's Ice Cream, Inc. v. City of Salisbury†	125 Md. App. 125	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 166 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 Kenney on?: James Kenney was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

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9 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).