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 2000 / Active

Peter B. Krauser

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Peter B. Krauser is a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Krauser authored 213 published opinions for the court (2000–2018), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: McClurkin & Jackson v. State (56 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. 81 of these were attributed to Krauser 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
2015	McClurkin & Jackson v. State	222 Md. App. 461	56
2004	Campbell v. Lake Hallowell Homeowners Ass'n†	852 A.2d 1029	49
2007	Joseph v. Bozzuto Management Co.	918 A.2d 1230	48
2004	Goldstein v. Miles†	859 A.2d 313	41
2008	Jackson v. 2109 Brandywine, LLC	952 A.2d 304	39
2002	Redemptorists v. Coulthard Services, Inc.	801 A.2d 1104	33
2006	Montgomery County v. Rotwein†	906 A.2d 959	32
2008	Padilla v. State	949 A.2d 68	31
2014	Bord v. Baltimore County	220 Md. App. 529	30
2008	Worsham v. Ehrlich	957 A.2d 161	27
2005	Moore v. Myers†	868 A.2d 954	27
2004	Painter v. State	848 A.2d 692	26
2004	Conboy v. State†	843 A.2d 216	24
2011	Mitchell v. Housing Authority	26 A.3d 1012	22
2008	Tate v. State	957 A.2d 640	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 214 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 Peter B. Krauser on?: Peter B. Krauser is a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

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26 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).