How do judges of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1965 / Served to 1966

Abraham M. Rudman

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Abraham M. Rudman was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1970
Tenure: 1965–1966 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

University of Maine

Judicial Record

In our data, Rudman authored 10 published opinions for the court (1965–1966). Most cited: Downs v. Poulin (36 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 8 of these were attributed to Rudman by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1966	Downs v. Poulin†	216 A.2d 29	36
1966	Inhabitants of Town of Windham v. Sprague†	219 A.2d 548	28
1965	State v. Littlefield†	213 A.2d 431	14
1965	Longway v. State	213 A.2d 519	8
1965	State v. Stinson Canning Company	211 A.2d 553	8
1965	Anderson v. Marston†	213 A.2d 48	7
1966	Oxford County Agricultural Society v. School Administrative District No. 17†	220 A.2d 485	3
1966	Hillock ex rel. Hillock v. Bailey†	223 A.2d 426	2
1965	Hughes v. State†	161 Me. 424	1
1966	State v. Breau†	222 A.2d 774	0

Showing the 10 most-cited of 10 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Abraham M. Rudman on?: Abraham M. Rudman was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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1 year on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).