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William Cushing, showing early U.S. Supreme Court dress, with a wig. Until the tenure of Chief Justice John Marshall, all Supreme Court justices wore red robes with ermine trim and full-bottomed wigs, reminiscent of British court dress. Marshall, however, eschewed this formality and began the practice of only wearing a black silk robe, with no wig.
At the time of her appointment, she was the fifth woman on the seven-judge panel, which has the highest number of women the court has ever had. She also was the second African American woman appointed to the court, after Judge Shirley M. Watts, who was appointed prior to her. [1]
Justices of the Supreme Court of Maryland, 2023. Unlike most other American federal, state, and local courts, the justices on the Supreme Court of Maryland wear red robes and with white cross-collars, reminiscent of British court dress. Judges at all other levels of the Maryland judiciary wear the more customary black robes.
The Maryland State Supreme Court has posthumously admitted Edward Garrison Draper to the bar, making him the state’s first Black lawyer. Maryland posthumously admits state’s first Black lawyer ...
Courts of Maryland include: Maryland judicial circuit map State courts of Maryland. Supreme Court of Maryland [1] Appellate Court of Maryland [2] Maryland Circuit Courts (8 judicial circuits) [3] Maryland District Courts (34 locations in 12 judicial districts) [4] Federal courts located in Maryland. United States District Court for the District ...
First female (juvenile court): Bess B. Lavine [16] [25] First African American female (Maryland Special Court of Appeals): Michele D. Hotten in 2010 [26] First African-American female (Maryland Court of Appeals): Shirley M. Watts (1983) in 2013 [27] First Asian American (female) (Maryland Special Court of Appeals): Rosalyn Tang in 2022 [28]
This wasn’t the first time Maryland’s highest court has taken up Syed’s protracted legal odyssey. In 2019, a divided court ruled 4-3 to deny Syed a new trial.
In a ruling Friday, Aug. 30, Maryland’s Supreme Court upheld a lower court's reinstatement of Adnan Syed’s murder conviction in connection with the 1999 death of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.