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 1993 / Served to 2007

Joseph F. Murphy Jr.

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Joseph F. Murphy Jr. was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–2007 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Murphy authored 1,020 published opinions for the court (1967–2008), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Williams v. State (248 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. 80 of these were attributed to Murphy 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
1968	Williams v. State	247 A.2d 731	248
1994	North v. North· Dissent†	102 Md. App. 1	162
1968	Harding v. State	246 A.2d 302	113
1970	Metz v. State	262 A.2d 331	112
1968	Boone v. State	237 A.2d 787	88
1968	Tender v. State	237 A.2d 65	68
1968	Robinson v. State	243 A.2d 879	66
2000	Innerbichler v. Innerbichler	752 A.2d 291	64
1968	State v. Gibson	242 A.2d 575	64
1968	Mullaney v. State	246 A.2d 291	62
1969	Scott v. State	256 A.2d 384	60
1969	Parker v. State	254 A.2d 381	60
1970	Johnson v. State	263 A.2d 232	57
1969	Lindsay v. State	258 A.2d 760	57
1968	Strawderman v. State	244 A.2d 888	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,028 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 Joseph F. Murphy Jr. on?: Joseph F. Murphy Jr. was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

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14 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).