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 1944 / Served to 1964

William L. Henderson

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

William L. Henderson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1944. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1894–1984
Tenure: 1944–1964 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1944	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Henderson authored 644 published opinions for the court (1944–1993), plus 34 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Baltimore Transit Co. v. State Rx Rel. Schriefer (130 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. 512 of these were attributed to Henderson 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
1944	Baltimore Transit Co. v. State Rx Rel. Schriefer	39 A.2d 858	130
1959	Breeding v. State†	151 A.2d 743	99
1964	State Ex Rel. Odham v. Sherman†	198 A.2d 71	98
1956	Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Barrack†	122 A.2d 457	96
1954	Compania De Astral, S. A. v. Boston Metals Co.· Dissent†	107 A.2d 357	87
1950	Hammond v. Lancaster†	71 A.2d 474	82
1962	Maryland Committee for Fair Representation v. Tawes, Governor & Board of State Canvassers· Dissent†	180 A.2d 656	79
1956	Eggleston v. State†	121 A.2d 698	78
1952	Adams, Nelson, and Timanus v. State†	88 A.2d 556	78
1945	Hecht v. Crook	40 A.2d 673	78
1961	Harper v. Higgs· Dissent†	169 A.2d 661	74
1946	Snyder v. Cearfoss	46 A.2d 607	74
1946	Rheb v. Bar Ass'n of Baltimore	46 A.2d 289	74
1949	Baltimore Radio Show, Inc. v. State Baltimore Broadcasting Corp.	67 A.2d 497	73
1957	Huff v. Board of Zoning Appeals· Dissent†	133 A.2d 83	71

Showing the 15 most-cited of 684 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 L. Henderson on?: William L. Henderson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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20 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).