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 1973 / Served to 1984

Thomas H. Lowe

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Thomas H. Lowe was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1973–1984 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lowe authored 415 published opinions for the court (1973–1984), plus 6 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Finch v. Hughes Aircraft Co. (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. 203 of these were attributed to Lowe 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
1984	Finch v. Hughes Aircraft Co.†	469 A.2d 867	104
1974	Cutlip v. Lucky Stores, Inc.	325 A.2d 432	64
1979	Lahocki v. Contee Sand & Gravel Co.†	398 A.2d 490	57
1975	Kapiloff v. Dunn	343 A.2d 251	57
1984	Anderson Banks v. Iron Hustler Corp.	475 A.2d 1243	46
1975	Brooks v. State	330 A.2d 670	44
1976	Madore v. Baltimore County	367 A.2d 54	40
1976	Van Meter v. State†	352 A.2d 850	38
1974	Vanhook v. Merchants Mutual Insurance	321 A.2d 540	38
1981	Scarborough v. State	437 A.2d 672	37
1977	Blackwell v. State	369 A.2d 153	37
1974	White v. State	326 A.2d 219	37
1983	Furr v. Spring Grove State Hospital†	454 A.2d 414	35
1980	Aeropesca Ltd. v. Butler Aviation International, Inc.	411 A.2d 1055	34
1975	Cheek v. J. B. G. Properties, Inc.	344 A.2d 180	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 425 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 Thomas H. Lowe on?: Thomas H. Lowe was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

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11 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).