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 1981 / Served to 1996

John J. Bishop Jr.

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

John J. Bishop Jr. was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–2011
Tenure: 1981–1996 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bishop authored 343 published opinions for the court (1981–2002), plus 7 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Fraidin v. Weitzman (90 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. 192 of these were attributed to Bishop 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
1992	Fraidin v. Weitzman	611 A.2d 1046	90
1986	Exxon Corp. v. Yarema†	516 A.2d 990	69
1984	Holston v. Holston	473 A.2d 459	68
1985	Green v. Green	494 A.2d 721	50
1991	Yost v. Early†	589 A.2d 1291	48
2002	Cooper v. Berkshire Life Insurance	810 A.2d 1045	46
1992	Homa v. Friendly Mobile Manor, Inc.†	612 A.2d 322	43
1986	Ocean Hideaway Condominium Ass'n v. Boardwalk Plaza Venture†	515 A.2d 485	40
1988	GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE & LIFE ASSUR. CORP., LTD. v. Perry†	541 A.2d 1340	38
1991	Owens-Illinois v. Armstrong†	591 A.2d 544	37
1993	Goldberger v. Goldberger	624 A.2d 1328	35
1991	DiLeo v. Nugent	592 A.2d 1126	35
1985	Medina v. Meilhammer†	489 A.2d 35	35
1990	Meyer v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.	582 A.2d 275	33
1986	Progressive Casualty Insurance v. Ehrhardt†	518 A.2d 151	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 351 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 John J. Bishop Jr. on?: John J. Bishop Jr. 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).