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 1934 / Served to 1941

Walter C. Mitchell

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Walter C. Mitchell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1871–1955
Tenure: 1934–1941 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mitchell authored 108 published opinions for the court (1935–1941). Most cited: Oursler v. Tawes (47 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. 3 of these were attributed to Mitchell 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
1940	Oursler v. Tawes	13 A.2d 763	47
1938	Hitzelberger v. State	197 A. 605	39
1941	Schill v. Remington Putnam Book Co.	17 A.2d 175	37
1938	Armiger v. Baltimore Transit Co.	196 A. 111	36
1940	Daniel Loughran Co. v. Lord Baltimore Candy & Tobacco Co.	12 A.2d 201	33
1937	Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Samis	192 A. 335	33
1935	Mayor of Baltimore v. State	179 A. 169	33
1938	Kramer v. Globe Brewing Co.	2 A.2d 634	30
1938	Benson v. Borden	198 A. 419	30
1940	Hospital for Women Ex Rel. Green v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.	11 A.2d 457	28
1940	State Ex Rel. Kalives v. Baltimore Eye, Ear, & Throat Hospital, Inc.	10 A.2d 612	27
1937	Yost v. Yost	190 A. 753	27
1940	Thompson v. Standard Wholesale Phosphate & Acid Works, Inc.	13 A.2d 328	26
1939	Moodhe v. Schenker	4 A.2d 453	26
1939	Salisbury Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Lowe	4 A.2d 440	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 108 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 Walter C. Mitchell on?: Walter C. Mitchell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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7 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).