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 1941 / Served to 1952

Ogle Marbury

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Ogle Marbury was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1973
Tenure: 1941–1952 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Johns Hopkins University

Judicial Record

In our data, Marbury authored 266 published opinions for the court (1941–1952), plus 14 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hammond v. Lancaster (82 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. 89 of these were attributed to Marbury 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
1950	Hammond v. Lancaster· Concurrence†	71 A.2d 474	82
1947	State v. Haas	51 A.2d 647	74
1950	Day v. State†	76 A.2d 729	72
1948	Apple v. State	59 A.2d 509	69
1950	Lambert v. State†	75 A.2d 327	57
1945	Shanks v. State	45 A.2d 85	57
1942	Maryland Theatrical Corp. v. Brennan	24 A.2d 911	57
1951	Damasiewicz v. Gorsuch†	79 A.2d 550	54
1946	Shedlock v. Marshall	46 A.2d 349	54
1952	Johns Hopkins University v. Williams†	86 A.2d 892	53
1950	Donner v. Calvert Distillers Corp.†	77 A.2d 305	47
1950	Bull Steamship Lines v. Fisher†	77 A.2d 142	45
1947	Saunders v. Maryland Unemployment Compensation Board	53 A.2d 579	45
1948	Schneider v. Lansdale	61 A.2d 671	44
1944	State v. Petrushansky	36 A.2d 533	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 282 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 Ogle Marbury on?: Ogle Marbury was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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11 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).