Who appointed Marvin J. Garbis?

President George H.W. Bush appointed Marvin J. Garbis to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in 1989.

Was Marvin J. Garbis appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Marvin J. Garbis was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Marvin J. Garbis's confirmation vote?

Marvin J. Garbis was confirmed by voice vote on October 24, 1989. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of Maryland / Appointed 1989 / Served to 2018

Marvin J. Garbis

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1989 and confirmed by voice vote, Marvin J. Garbis was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1961. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Appointed by: George H.W. Bush, 1989
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Johns Hopkins 1958 · Harvard Law School 1961
Succeeded: Joseph H. Young
Succeeded by: Roger W. Titus

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	District of Maryland succeeded Joseph H. Young	G.H.W. Bush (R)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Johns Hopkins University	B.E.S.	1958
Harvard Law School	J.D.	1961
Georgetown College (now Georgetown University) Law Center	LL.M.	1962

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Garbis was assigned 6,423 district-court cases (1984–2018). Median time from filing to termination: 190 days across 6,423 closed cases.

Prisoner & habeas20%

Contract16%

Civil rights13%

Personal-injury torts13%

Other federal statutes11%

Labor & ERISA7%

Other19%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 117 of Garbis’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 98 were affirmed, 15 reversed or vacated, and 4 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Garbis authored 71 published opinions for the court (1990–2011). Most cited: Superior Bank, F.S.B. v. Tandem National Mortgage, Inc. (52 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2000	Superior Bank, F.S.B. v. Tandem National Mortgage, Inc.	197 F. Supp. 2d 298	52
1998	Johnson v. Asset Management Group, LLC	226 B.R. 364	29
1995	United States Ex Rel. Mayman v. Martin Marietta Corp.	894 F. Supp. 218	25
1995	Rinn v. First Union National Bank of Maryland	176 B.R. 401	24
1994	Reusch v. Fountain	872 F. Supp. 1421	22
1995	Kohler v. Shenasky	914 F. Supp. 1206	21
1991	Adams v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maryland, Inc.	757 F. Supp. 661	20
1998	Seafarers Welfare Plan v. Philip Morris	27 F. Supp. 2d 623	19
1991	Martin Marietta Corp. v. International Telecommunications Satellite Organization	763 F. Supp. 1327	18
2003	Bouchat v. Champion Products, Inc.	327 F. Supp. 2d 537	17
2001	United States v. Westvaco Corp.	144 F. Supp. 2d 439	17
1992	Tischler v. Baltimore Bancorp	801 F. Supp. 1493	17
1990	Cardin v. Pacific Employers Insurance	745 F. Supp. 330	17
1990	Anglemyer v. United States	115 B.R. 510	17
2002	Speciner v. Nationsbank, N.A.	215 F. Supp. 2d 622	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 71 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

Who appointed Marvin J. Garbis?: President George H.W. Bush appointed Marvin J. Garbis to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in 1989.
Was Marvin J. Garbis appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Marvin J. Garbis was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Marvin J. Garbis's confirmation vote?: Marvin J. Garbis was confirmed by voice vote on October 24, 1989. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Marvin J. Garbis on?: Marvin J. Garbis was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

Sources

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28 years on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).