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 2005 / Active

Patrick L. Woodward

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Patrick L. Woodward is a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Woodward authored 141 published opinions for the court (1997–2025), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Morris v. Goodwin (28 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. 62 of these were attributed to Woodward 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
2016	Morris v. Goodwin†	148 A.3d 63	28
2010	Freedman v. Comcast Corp.	988 A.2d 68	28
2011	Ramlall v. Mobilepro Corp.	30 A.3d 1003	23
2008	Rollins v. Capital Plaza Associates, L.P.†	181 Md. App. 188	23
2009	Thomas v. Capital Medical Management Associates, LLC	985 A.2d 51	22
2015	Johnson v. State	223 Md. App. 128	21
2011	Moore v. State	18 A.3d 981	21
2008	Hoerauf v. State†	941 A.2d 1161	21
2006	Wilbon v. Hunsicker†	913 A.2d 678	21
2006	Blasi v. State†	893 A.2d 1152	20
2017	Chassels v. Krepps†	174 A.3d 896	19
2012	Svrcek v. Rosenberg	40 A.3d 494	18
2007	Abrams v. State†	933 A.2d 887	18
2015	In Re NICK H.	224 Md. App. 668	17
2010	Norman v. Borison	994 A.2d 1019	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 142 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 is Patrick L. Woodward on?: Patrick L. Woodward is a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

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21 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).