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 1966 / Served to 1972

Thomas B. Finan

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Thomas B. Finan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1972
Tenure: 1966–1972 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Finan authored 223 published opinions for the court (1966–1972), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Wilson v. State (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. 219 of these were attributed to Finan 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
1971	Wilson v. State†	276 A.2d 214	119
1969	Mayor of Baltimore v. Sitnick†	255 A.2d 376	82
1969	Mumford v. Staton, Whaley & Price†	255 A.2d 359	74
1970	State v. Hutchinson†	271 A.2d 641	68
1970	State v. Babb†	267 A.2d 190	63
1969	Mattingly v. Hopkins†	253 A.2d 904	61
1969	Feldman v. Granger	257 A.2d 421	58
1967	Agneslane, Inc. v. Lucas†	233 A.2d 757	58
1969	Johns Hopkins Hospital v. Genda†	258 A.2d 595	56
1969	Hutzell v. Boyer†	249 A.2d 449	56
1968	Subsequent Injury Fund v. Pack†	242 A.2d 506	55
1969	Brice v. State	255 A.2d 28	51
1971	Bruce v. Dir., Chesapeake Bay Aff.†	276 A.2d 200	50
1969	Harris v. Arlen Properties, Inc.†	260 A.2d 22	50
1971	Brown v. Suburban Cadillac, Inc.†	272 A.2d 42	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 224 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 Thomas B. Finan on?: Thomas B. Finan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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6 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).