List of judges of the Supreme Court of Maryland

The following are chronological lists of judges and chief judges of the Supreme Court of Maryland, known before December 14, 2022 as the Maryland Court of Appeals.

List of chief judges NameTerm startTerm endBenjamin Rumsey 1778 1806 Jeremiah Chase18061824John Buchanan18241844Stevenson Archer18441848 Thomas Beale Dorsey18481851 John Carroll LeGrand18511861 Richard Bowie18611867 James Lawrence Bartol18671883 Richard H. Alvey18831893 John Mitchell Robinson18931896 James McSherry18961907 Andrew Hunter Boyd19071924 Carroll Bond19241943 D. Lindley Sloan19431944 Ogle Marbury19441952 Charles Markell19521952 Simon Sobeloff19521954 Frederick Brune19541964 William L. Henderson1964 1964Stedman Prescott19641966 Hall Hammond19661972 Robert C. Murphy19721996 Robert M. Bell19962013Mary Ellen Barbera20132021Joseph M. Getty20212022Matthew J. Fader2022present

List of all judges Benjamin Rumsey, 1778–1806 Benjamin Mackall IV 1778–1806 Thomas Jones, 1778–1806 Solomon Wright, 1778–1792 James Murray, 1778–1784 Richard Potts, 1801–1806 Littleton Dennis Jr., 1801–1806 John Thomson Mason, 1806–1806 Jeremiah Chase, 1806–1824 James Tilghman, 1806–1809 William Polk, 1806–1812 Richard Sprigg Jr., 1806 Joseph Hopper Nicholson, 1806–1817 John Mackall Gantt, 1806–1811 John Buchanan, 1806–1844 Richard Tilghman Earle, 1809–1834 John Johnson Sr., 1811–1821 John Done, 1812–1814 William Bond Martin, 1814–1835 Walter Dorsey, 1817–1823 John Stephen, 1822–1844 Stevenson Archer, 1823–1848 Thomas Beale Dorsey, 1824–1851 Ezekiel F. Chambers, 1834–1851 Ara Spence, 1835–1851 William B. Stone, 1844–1845 Samuel Middleton Semmes, 1844–1845 Alexander Contee Magruder, 1844–1851 Robert N. Martin, 1845–1851 William Frick, 1848–1851 John Carroll LeGrand, 1851–1861 John Bowers Eccleston, 1851–1860 William Hallam Tuck, 1851–1861 James Lawrence Bartol, 1857–1883 Brice Goldsborough, 1860–1867 Silas Morris Cochran, 1861–1866 Richard Bowie, 1861–1867; 1871–1881 Daniel Weisel, 1864–1867 Peter Wood Crain, 1867 James Augustus Stewart, 1867–1879 Richard H. Alvey, 1867–1893 Richard Grason, 1867–1882 John Mitchell Robinson, 1867–1896 Oliver Miller, 1867–1892 Madison Nelson, 1867–1870 George Brent, 1867–1881 William P. Maulsby, 1870–1871 Richard Bowie, 1871–1881 Levin Thomas Handy Irving, 1879–1892 John Ritchie, 1881–1887 Daniel Randall Magruder, 1881 Frederick Stone, 1881–1890 George Yellott, 1882–1889 William Shepard Bryan, 1883–1898 James McSherry, 1887–1907 David Fowler, 1889–1905 John Parran Briscoe, 1890–1923 Henry Page, 1892–1908 Charles Boyle Roberts, 1892–1899 Andrew Hunter Boyd, 1893–1924 George Mitchell Russum, 1896–1897 James Alfred Pearce, 1897–1912 Samuel D. Schmucker, 1898–1911 James A. C. Bond, 1899 Isaac Thomas Jones, 1899–1907 Nicholas Charles Burke, 1905–1920 John G. Rogers, 1907 Winder Laird Henry, 1908–1909 William H. Thomas, 1907–1924 Glenn H. Worthington, 1908–1909 John R. Pattison, 1909–1934 Hammond Urner, 1909–1938 Henry Stockbridge Jr. 1911–1924 Albert Constable, 1912–1919 William H. Adkins, 1919–1934 T. Scott Offutt, 1920–1942 W. Mitchell Digges, 1923–1934 Carroll T. Bond, 1924–1943 Francis Neal Parke, 1924–1941 William C. Walsh, 1924–1926 D. Lindley Sloan, 1926–1944 Benjamin A. Johnson, 1934–1943 William Mason Shehan, 1934–1940 Walter J. Mitchell, 1934–1941 Edward S. Delaplaine, 1938–1956 Stephen R. Collins, 1940–1957 William H. Forsythe, 1941–1942 Ogle Marbury, 1941–1952 Ridgely P. Melvin, 1942–1945 C. Gus Grason, 1942–1951 Levin C. Bailey, 1943–1944 Rowland K. Adams, 1943–1944 Walter C. Capper, 1944 William L. Henderson, 1944–1964 Charles Markell, 1945–1952 Hall Hammond, 1952–1972 Simon E. Sobeloff, 1952–1954 Frederick W. Brune, 1954–1964 Stedman Prescott, 1956–1966 William R. Horney, 1957–1968 Charles C. Marbury, 1960–1969 C. Ferdinand Sybert, 1961–1965 Reuben Oppenheimer, 1964–1967 Wilson K. Barnes, 1964–1974 William J. McWilliams, 1965–1974 Thomas B. Finan, 1966–1972 Frederick J. Singley Jr. 1967–1977 Marvin H. Smith, 1968–1986 J. Dudley Digges, 1969–1982 Robert C. Murphy, 2nd Appellate Circuit, 1972–1996 Irving A. Levine, 1972–1978 John C. Eldridge, 5th Appellate Circuit, 1974–2003 William J. O'Donnell, 1974–1976 Charles E. Orth Jr., 1976–1980 Harry A. Cole, 1977–1991 Rita C. Davidson, 1979–1984 Lawrence F. Rodowsky, 3rd Appellate Circuit, 1980–2002 James F. Couch Jr., 1982–1987 John F. McAuliffe, 1985–1993 William H. Adkins II, 1986–1990 Albert T. Blackwell Jr., 1987–1990 Howard S. Chasanow, 4th Appellate Circuit, 1990–1999 Robert L. Karwacki, 1st Appellate Circuit, 1990–1998 Robert M. Bell, 6th Appellate Circuit, 1991–2013 Irma S. Raker, 7th Appellate Circuit, 1993–2008 Alan M. Wilner, 2nd Appellate Circuit, 1996–2007 Dale R. Cathell, 1st Appellate Circuit, 1998–2008 Glenn T. Harrell Jr., 4th Appellate Circuit, 1999–2015 Lynne A. Battaglia, 3rd Appellate Circuit, 2002–2016 Clayton Greene Jr., 5th Appellate Circuit, 2004–2019 Joseph F. Murphy Jr., 2nd Appellate Circuit, 2007–2011 Sally D. Adkins, 1st Appellate Circuit, 2008–2018 Mary Ellen Barbera, 7th Appellate Circuit, 2008–2021 Robert N. McDonald, 2nd Appellate Circuit, 2011–2022 Shirley M. Watts, 6th Appellate Circuit, 2013– Michele D. Hotten, 4th Appellate Circuit, 2015–2024 Joseph M. Getty, 3rd Appellate Circuit, 2016–2022 Brynja McDivitt Booth, 1st Appellate Circuit, 2019– Jonathan Biran, 5th Appellate Circuit, 2019– Steven B. Gould, 7th Appellate Circuit, 2021– Angela M. Eaves, 2nd Appellate Circuit, 2022– Matthew J. Fader, 3rd Appellate Circuit, 2022– Peter Killough, 4th Appellate Circuit, 2024–

References List of all judges from the Maryland Archives List of chief judges from the Maryland Archives