He served one term in the Maryland General Assembly and was a member of the Cardin political family.
[4][5] In 1935, Meyer Cardin was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates for a single four-year term, from 1935 to 1939.
[6] Cardin's judicial career began in 1955 when he was appointed Baltimore's Chief Police Magistrate.
[4] Later he served as Chairman of the Maryland Workman's Compensation Commission from 1958 to 1961, until Governor J. Millard Tawes appointed Meyer Cardin to the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City as an associate judge, a post he held from 1961 until his retirement in 1977.
[4][5] Judge Meyer Cardin met Dora Green, a school teacher, while visiting the Chicago World's Fair in 1933.