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 1980 / Served to 1992

Joseph I. Pines

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Joseph I. Pines was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1980–1992 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

University of Baltimore

Judicial Record

In our data, Pines authored 2 published opinions for the court (1984–1987). Most cited: Board of Appeals, Department of Employment & Training v. Mayor of Baltimore (6 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. 2 of these were attributed to Pines 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
1987	Board of Appeals, Department of Employment & Training v. Mayor of Baltimore†	530 A.2d 763	6
1984	Myers v. State†	470 A.2d 355	4

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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 I. Pines on?: Joseph I. Pines was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

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12 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).