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 1924 / Served to 1926

William Concannon Walsh

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

William Concannon Walsh was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1924. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1975
Tenure: 1924–1926 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1924	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Mount St Mary's University
Mount St Mary's University

Judicial Record

In our data, Walsh authored 44 published opinions for the court (1925–1926), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Tighe v. Osborne (48 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 Walsh 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
1926	Tighe v. Osborne	133 A. 465	48
1925	State Ex Rel. Stasciewicz v. Parks	129 A. 793	37
1926	Royal Insur. Co. v. Drury	132 A. 635	32
1925	Mayor of Baltimore v. O'Conor	128 A. 759	32
1925	Texas Co. v. Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad	127 A. 752	31
1926	Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. W. & J. Knox Net & Twine Co.	132 A. 261	30
1925	Johnston v. Willis	127 A. 862	30
1925	Jones v. Northwest Real Estate Co.	131 A. 446	29
1926	Brennan v. State	134 A. 148	27
1926	Klein v. State	135 A. 591	23
1926	Hopkins v. North	135 A. 367	21
1926	Mercantile Savings Bank v. Appler	135 A. 373	21
1926	County Commissioners v. Pardee	134 A. 33	19
1926	York v. Maryland Trust Co.	133 A. 128	19
1925	Drive It Yourself Co. v. North	130 A. 57	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 45 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 Concannon Walsh on?: William Concannon Walsh was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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2 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).