The Supreme Court of Maryland is the highest court of the U.S. state of Maryland. The court,which is composed of one chief justice and six associate justices,meets in the Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal Building in the state capital,Annapolis. The term of the Court begins the second Monday of September. The Court is unique among American courts in that the justices wear red robes.
The government of Maryland is conducted according to the Maryland Constitution. The United States is a federation;consequently,the government of Maryland,like the other 49 state governments,has exclusive authority over matters that lie entirely within the state's borders,except as limited by the Constitution of the United States.
The Appellate Court of Maryland is the intermediate appellate court for the U.S. state of Maryland. The Appellate Court of Maryland was created in 1966 in response to the rapidly growing caseload in the Supreme Court of Maryland. Like the state's highest court,the tribunal meets in the Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal Building in the state capital,Annapolis.
Judicial appointmentsin Canada are made by the federal government or provincial government. Superior and federal court judges are appointed by federal government,while inferior courts are appointed by the provincial government.
Diana Jane Gribbon Motz is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Barbara Lagoa is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to becoming a federal judge,she was the first Latina and Cuban American woman appointed to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
Joseph M. Getty is the former chief judge of the Supreme Court of Maryland. He was appointed as a judge of that court on June 27,2016,by Governor Larry Hogan. Effective September 11,2021,Hogan appointed him as chief judge to replace Mary Ellen Barbera as she reached the mandatory retirement age of 70,an age Getty himself reached after seven months. He was succeeded by Matthew J. Fader.
Wilhelmina Marie Wright is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. She is the only jurist in Minnesota's history to be state district court judge,appellate court judge and state supreme court justice. She was formerly an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court,a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals,and a judge of the Minnesota District Court,Second Judicial District.
Mary Ellen Barbera is an American lawyer and jurist from Baltimore,Maryland.
Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. is an American politician and businessman who served as the 62nd governor of Maryland from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party and son of three-term congressman Lawrence Hogan,he also served as chair of the National Governors Association from 2019 to 2020.
Michele Denise Hotten is a justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland appointed by Governor Larry Hogan.
Julius Ness "Jay" Richardson is an American judge and lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina.
Steven James Menashi is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to his appointment to the court by President Donald Trump,he was an official in the Trump administration.
Brynja McDivitt Booth is an American lawyer from Maryland who is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.
Jonathan Biran is an American lawyer from Maryland who serves as a justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.
Gabriel Patrick Sanchez is an American lawyer and judge who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He served as an associate judge of the California Court of Appeal,First Appellate District from 2018 to 2022.
Angela M. Eaves is an American lawyer and judge. She is a justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland. She served as an administrative judge for the 3rd Judicial Circuit for Harford County from 2015 to 2022.
Matthew J. Fader is an American lawyer serving as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland since 2022. He previously served as the chief judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals from 2018 to 2022.
E. Gregory Wells is an American lawyer and judge from Maryland. He is the Chief Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.
Bernice D. Mireku-North is an American politician. She is currently a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates,appointed by Governor Larry Hogan to fill the term of Eric Luedtke,who resigned on January 2,2023,to serve as the chief legislative officer of governor-elect Wes Moore. She was previously a candidate for Montgomery County State's Attorney in 2022.
