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 1941 / Served to 1942

William H. Forsythe

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

William H. Forsythe was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1874–1951
Tenure: 1941–1942 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Forsythe authored 28 published opinions for the court (1941–1942). Most cited: Heinze v. Murphy (70 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. 1 of these was attributed to Forsythe 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
1942	Heinze v. Murphy	24 A.2d 917	70
1941	Bloom v. Good Humor Ice Cream Co.	18 A.2d 592	54
1941	American Casualty Co. v. Ricas	22 A.2d 484	46
1942	Ragan v. Kelly	24 A.2d 289	30
1941	Whitmarsh v. Richmond	20 A.2d 161	25
1942	Gaggers v. Gibson	26 A.2d 395	22
1942	Lohr v. Upper Potomac River Commission	26 A.2d 547	22
1942	Robey v. Broersma	26 A.2d 820	18
1942	Atlantic Refining Co. v. Forrester	25 A.2d 667	17
1942	Hall v. Hall	24 A.2d 415	17
1942	Bannister v. Bannister	29 A.2d 287	14
1941	McGlaughlin v. Warfield	23 A.2d 12	14
1942	Thursby v. O'Rourke	23 A.2d 656	12
1942	Bank v. Bank	23 A.2d 700	11
1941	Silverberg v. Dearholt	22 A.2d 588	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 William H. Forsythe on?: William H. Forsythe was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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1 year 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).