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 2008 / Former Justice

Sally D. Adkins

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Sally D. Adkins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Lawrence University

Judicial Record

In our data, Adkins authored 175 published opinions for the court (2008–2020), plus 46 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Cunningham v. Feinberg (119 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. 168 of these were attributed to Adkins 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	Cunningham v. Feinberg· Concurrence†	441 Md. 310	119
2013	Koste v. Town of Oxford· Dissent†	431 Md. 14	94
2011	Prince George's County v. Longtin†	19 A.3d 859	90
2018	WSC/2005 LLC v. Trio Ventures Assocs.	190 A.3d 255	78
2015	Maryland Casualty Co. v. Blackstone International Ltd.	442 Md. 685	77
2010	Houghton v. Forrest†	989 A.2d 223	72
2017	Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc. v. Rummel Klepper & Kahl, LLP	155 A.3d 445	67
2014	Peters v. Early Healthcare Giver, Inc.	439 Md. 646	64
2009	Bible v. State†	982 A.2d 348	62
2009	Independent Newspapers, Inc. v. Brodie· Concurrence†	966 A.2d 432	62
2011	Hansen v. City of Laurel· Dissent†	25 A.3d 122	59
2013	Attorney Grievance Commission v. Dore†	433 Md. 685	57
2015	Windesheim v. Larocca	443 Md. 312	56
2014	Spacesaver Systems, Inc. v. Adam	440 Md. 1	54
2013	Derr v. State· Concurrence†	434 Md. 88	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 249 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 Sally D. Adkins on?: Sally D. Adkins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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18 years 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).