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 1985 / Served to 2000

William Wenner

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

William Wenner was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–2000 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wenner authored 217 published opinions for the court (1986–2003), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Thacker v. City of Hyattsville (71 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. 93 of these were attributed to Wenner 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
2000	Thacker v. City of Hyattsville	762 A.2d 172	71
1990	Yousef v. Trustbank Savings, F.S.B.†	568 A.2d 1134	54
1989	Cobey v. State	559 A.2d 391	53
2000	Berringer v. Steele	758 A.2d 574	51
1989	Singer Co., Link Simulation Systems Division v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.	558 A.2d 419	42
1993	Pleasant v. Pleasant†	632 A.2d 202	36
1987	Roberts v. SUBURBAN HOSPITAL ASS'N, INC.	532 A.2d 1081	35
1988	Craig v. State	544 A.2d 784	31
2001	Magee v. Dansources Technical Services, Inc.	769 A.2d 231	30
1999	Volcjak v. Washington County Hospital Ass'n	723 A.2d 463	29
2003	Malin v. Mininberg	837 A.2d 178	27
1993	Noffsinger v. Noffsinger	620 A.2d 415	27
1990	Quinn v. Quinn†	575 A.2d 764	27
1998	Lyon v. Campbell	707 A.2d 850	24
1989	Kramer v. Levitt	558 A.2d 760	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 221 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 William Wenner on?: William Wenner was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

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14 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).