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 1994 / Served to 2010

James P. Salmon

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

James P. Salmon was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 1994–2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Salmon authored 306 published opinions for the court (1995–2022), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Mogavero v. Silverstein (79 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. 104 of these were attributed to Salmon 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
2002	Mogavero v. Silverstein†	790 A.2d 43	79
1997	Anderson v. Litzenberg	694 A.2d 150	59
2005	Marquardt v. State	882 A.2d 900	57
1996	Hoffman v. UNITED IRON AND METAL COMPANY, INC.†	671 A.2d 55	42
2005	Maans v. Giant of Maryland, L.L.C.	871 A.2d 627	40
1996	Maryland Commission on Human Relations v. Downey Communications, Inc.	678 A.2d 55	40
2006	John Crane, Inc. v. Puller	899 A.2d 879	38
1998	Carroll County Ethics Commission v. Lennon	703 A.2d 1338	34
1997	Davis v. Goodman†	700 A.2d 798	32
2007	Randall v. Peaco	927 A.2d 83	31
2005	Jackson v. State	884 A.2d 694	29
1999	Porter v. Schaffer	728 A.2d 755	29
2001	Clark v. State	781 A.2d 913	28
1999	Cooper v. State	737 A.2d 613	28
1998	Ford Motor Co. v. Wood	703 A.2d 1315	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 308 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 P. Salmon on?: James P. Salmon was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

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15 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).