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 1988 / Served to 1997

Robert Fischer

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Robert Fischer was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–1997 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fischer authored 112 published opinions for the court (1989–2000), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Wagner v. Wagner (66 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. 65 of these were attributed to Fischer 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
1996	Wagner v. Wagner	674 A.2d 1	66
1993	Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc. v. Garten	618 A.2d 233	54
1994	Warner v. German	642 A.2d 239	45
1990	Melrod v. Melrod	574 A.2d 1	42
1996	Lemley v. Lemley†	109 Md. App. 620	30
1995	Patten v. Board of Liquor License Commissioners†	107 Md. App. 224	30
1990	Kessler v. Equity Management, Inc.	572 A.2d 1144	30
1991	Parlette v. Parlette	596 A.2d 665	29
1990	Cook v. State	578 A.2d 283	28
2000	Universal Underwriters Insurance v. Lowe	761 A.2d 997	27
1994	Jeffcoat v. Jeffcoat†	102 Md. App. 301	26
1996	ST Systems Corp. v. Maryland National Bank†	684 A.2d 32	24
1989	Laws v. Thompson· Concurrence†	554 A.2d 1264	24
1990	Catterton v. Coale†	579 A.2d 781	23
1996	Ahalt v. Montgomery County	686 A.2d 683	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 114 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 Robert Fischer on?: Robert Fischer was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

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9 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).