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 2001 / Served to 2008

Raymond Thieme

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Raymond Thieme was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2008 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Thieme authored 115 published opinions for the court (1996–2020). Most cited: Konover Property Trust, Inc. v. WHE Associates, Inc. (77 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. 33 of these were attributed to Thieme 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	Konover Property Trust, Inc. v. WHE Associates, Inc.†	790 A.2d 720	77
2003	Carter v. Aramark Sports & Entertainment Services, Inc.†	835 A.2d 262	52
1999	Electronics Store, Inc. v. Cellco Partnership	732 A.2d 980	38
1999	Faith v. Keefer	736 A.2d 422	34
2001	West v. State†	768 A.2d 150	29
2005	Shabazz v. Bob Evans Farms, Inc.	881 A.2d 1212	26
2002	Johnson v. State†	788 A.2d 678	26
2000	McCoy v. Hatmaker	763 A.2d 1233	25
2007	Doyle v. Finance America, LLC†	918 A.2d 1266	24
1998	Green v. State	705 A.2d 133	24
1997	Sea Watch Stores Ltd. Liability Co. v. Council of Unit Owners of Sea Watch Condominium	691 A.2d 750	24
2003	Hudson v. State†	832 A.2d 834	23
1998	Branch v. McGeeney	718 A.2d 631	22
2001	Danielewicz v. Arnold†	769 A.2d 274	21
2001	Brown & Sturm v. Frederick Road Ltd. Partnership†	768 A.2d 62	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 115 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 Raymond Thieme on?: Raymond Thieme was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

7 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).