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 2006 / Served to 2010

Lawrence Rodowsky

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Lawrence Rodowsky was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2006–2010 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rodowsky authored 28 published opinions for the court (2002–2015). Most cited: Jahnigen v. Smith (14 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. 16 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
2002	Jahnigen v. Smith	795 A.2d 234	14
2002	Dashiell v. State	792 A.2d 1185	14
2007	Crowder v. Master Financial, Inc.	933 A.2d 905	12
2008	Burden v. Burden	945 A.2d 656	10
2002	Brown v. Contemporary OB/GYN Associates	794 A.2d 669	10
2005	Chappelle v. McCarter	873 A.2d 458	9
2004	Stubbs v. Colandrea	841 A.2d 361	8
2009	Clark v. State†	981 A.2d 710	7
2008	Krebs v. Krebs†	960 A.2d 637	7
2003	In Re Andrew A.	815 A.2d 931	6
2009	Romero v. Brenes†	984 A.2d 346	5
2007	Haney v. Gregory†	936 A.2d 388	5
2010	Butcher v. State†	10 A.3d 201	4
2010	Darby v. Marley Cooling Tower Co.†	989 A.2d 1221	4
2007	Dawson v. State†	917 A.2d 133	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 Lawrence Rodowsky on?: Lawrence Rodowsky was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

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4 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).