How do judges of the Supreme Court of Maryland reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1980 / Served to 2000

Lawrence F. Rodowsky

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Lawrence F. Rodowsky was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1930 · age 96
Tenure: 1980–2000 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Rodowsky authored 401 published opinions for the court (1980–2019), plus 36 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Poffenberger v. Risser (310 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. 453 of these were attributed to Rodowsky 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
1981	Poffenberger v. Risser· Concurrence†	431 A.2d 677	310
1985	Pacific Indemnity Co. v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co.†	488 A.2d 486	255
1992	Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Balbos†	604 A.2d 445	152
1989	K & K Management, Inc. v. Chul Woo Lee†	557 A.2d 965	144
1997	Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Scarlett Harbor Associates Ltd. Partnership†	695 A.2d 153	140
1987	Parren v. State· Dissent†	523 A.2d 597	135
1989	Makovi v. Sherwin-Williams Co.†	561 A.2d 179	133
1984	Stebbing v. State†	473 A.2d 903	115
1992	Collier v. MD-Individual Practice Ass'n†	607 A.2d 537	111
2000	Manikhi v. Mass Transit Administration†	758 A.2d 95	108
1984	United Steelworkers of America AFL-CIO, Local 2610 v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.†	472 A.2d 62	107
1982	Oxtoby v. McGowan†	447 A.2d 860	104
1992	Rubin v. State†	602 A.2d 677	102
1986	O'HARA v. Kovens†	503 A.2d 1313	99
1987	Kent County Board of Education v. Bilbrough†	525 A.2d 232	92

Showing the 15 most-cited of 456 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 Lawrence F. Rodowsky on?: Lawrence F. Rodowsky was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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20 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).