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 1920 / Served to 1942

T Scott Offutt

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

T Scott Offutt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1920. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1872–1943
Tenure: 1920–1942 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1920	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Offutt authored 440 published opinions for the court (1920–1940), plus 20 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Board of Zoning Appeals v. McKinney (104 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. 6 of these were attributed to Offutt 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
1938	Board of Zoning Appeals v. McKinney	199 A. 540	104
1928	Neusbaum v. State	143 A. 872	102
1934	Lutz v. State	172 A. 354	101
1938	Landay v. Board of Zoning Appeals	196 A. 293	89
1937	Mayor of Baltimore v. State Ex Rel. Blueford	195 A. 571	83
1924	Kelly v. Huber Baking Co.	125 A. 782	83
1938	McKenrick v. Savings Bank	197 A. 580	80
1939	Greenfeld v. Hook	8 A.2d 888	76
1936	Dasch v. Jackson	183 A. 534	72
1927	Slacum v. Jolley	138 A. 244	70
1937	Norris v. Mayor of Baltimore	192 A. 531	62
1936	Moore v. Clarke	187 A. 887	59
1939	Foble v. Knefely	6 A.2d 48	57
1924	Newton v. State	127 A. 123	57
1926	Duffy v. State	135 A. 189	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 466 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 T Scott Offutt on?: T Scott Offutt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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22 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).