Birth Date: | 26 January 1937 |
Birth Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Office: | Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals |
Term Start: | 1996 |
Term End: | 2007 |
Office1: | Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals |
Term Start1: | 1990 |
Term End1: | 1996 |
Office2: | Judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals |
Term Start2: | 1977 |
Term End2: | 1990 |
Education: | Baltimore City College Johns Hopkins University (AB, MLA) University of Maryland, Baltimore (JD) |
Alan M. Wilner (born January 26, 1937) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, from Baltimore County, Maryland.
Wilner was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Baltimore City College and Johns Hopkins University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958 and an Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree in 1966. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1962.[1]
Wilner first entered the state court system as a judge on the Court of Special Appeals in 1977. He served on this court until 1990, and was chief judge from November 1990 to November 1996.
In 1996 he was appointed to the Maryland Court of Appeals; he retired in January 2007 on reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70.[2]