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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1985 / Served to 1993

John F. McAuliffe

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

John F. McAuliffe was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1985–1993 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Alabama State University

Judicial Record

In our data, McAuliffe authored 141 published opinions for the court (1985–1993), plus 41 dissents and 36 concurrences. Most cited: Jacques v. First National Bank (347 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. 218 of these were attributed to McAuliffe 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
1986	Jacques v. First National Bank†	515 A.2d 756	347
1992	Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Zenobia· Concurrence†	601 A.2d 633	337
1992	Murphy v. Edmonds· Concurrence†	601 A.2d 102	192
1993	Ford v. State· Concurrence†	625 A.2d 984	157
1986	Henley v. Prince George's County†	503 A.2d 1333	157
1989	Cheney v. Bell National Life Insurance†	556 A.2d 1135	155
1992	Oken v. State· Concurrence†	612 A.2d 258	141
1986	Taylor v. Taylor†	508 A.2d 964	132
1986	Council of Co-Owners Atlantis Condominium, Inc. v. Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.†	517 A.2d 336	125
1986	Shell v. State· Concurrence†	512 A.2d 358	125
1991	Snowden v. State· Concurrence†	583 A.2d 1056	113
1988	Doering v. State†	545 A.2d 1281	113
1993	State v. Lancaster· Dissent†	631 A.2d 453	110
1993	Davis v. State· Concurrence†	633 A.2d 867	107
1986	Rowley v. Mayor of Baltimore†	505 A.2d 494	107

Showing the 15 most-cited of 218 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 John F. McAuliffe on?: John F. McAuliffe was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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8 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).