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 1972 / Served to 1977

W A. Menchine

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

W A. Menchine was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1972–1977 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Menchine authored 209 published opinions for the court (1967–1988), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Bremer v. State (76 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. 85 of these were attributed to Menchine 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
1973	Bremer v. State	307 A.2d 503	76
1973	Hignut v. State· Dissent†	303 A.2d 173	53
1974	Jacober v. High Hill Realty, Inc.	321 A.2d 838	44
1967	Scott v. State	231 A.2d 728	38
1967	State v. Long	230 A.2d 119	36
1974	Matter of Sorrell†	315 A.2d 110	35
1973	Brocker Manufacturing & Supply Co. v. Mashburn	301 A.2d 501	33
1973	Mulligan v. State	308 A.2d 418	32
1974	Guarnera v. State	318 A.2d 243	30
1967	Spencer v. State	229 A.2d 151	30
1977	Jones v. Harris†	371 A.2d 1104	29
1975	Trupp v. Wolff· Dissent†	335 A.2d 171	29
1967	Cooper v. State	228 A.2d 840	29
1973	Robinson v. State	308 A.2d 734	28
1973	Carter v. State	305 A.2d 856	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 213 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 W A. Menchine on?: W A. Menchine was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

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5 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).