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 1943 / Served to 1944

Rowland K. Adams

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Rowland K. Adams was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1944
Tenure: 1943–1944 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Adams authored 14 published opinions for the court (1943). Most cited: Alexander v. R. D. Grier & Sons Co. (30 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. 1 of these was attributed to Adams 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
1943	Alexander v. R. D. Grier & Sons Co.	30 A.2d 757	30
1943	Sibbel v. Fitch	34 A.2d 773	26
1943	Eisler v. Eastern States Corp.	35 A.2d 118	25
1943	Alexander v. Tingle	30 A.2d 737	22
1943	Kelley v. State	31 A.2d 614	16
1943	Tawes v. Strouse	35 A.2d 233	6
1943	Cox v. Tayman	32 A.2d 368	6
1943	Alexander v. Rose	30 A.2d 785	6
1943	State v. Jones	34 A.2d 775	5
1943	McClenny v. Przyborowski	32 A.2d 365	2
1943	Griffith v. Lynch	31 A.2d 616	1
1943	Smith v. Smith	35 A.2d 109	0
1943	Easter v. Easter	34 A.2d 770	0
1943	Easter v. Easter†	182 Md. 663	0

Showing the 14 most-cited of 14 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 Rowland K. Adams on?: Rowland K. Adams was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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1 year 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).