How do judges of the Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1960 / Served to 1982

Albert W. Barney Jr.

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Albert W. Barney Jr. was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–2010
Tenure: 1960–1982 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Barney authored 449 published opinions for the court (1960–1982), plus 7 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Wood v. Wood (95 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. 460 of these were attributed to Barney 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
1977	Wood v. Wood†	370 A.2d 191	95
1982	In Re Agency of Administration, Etc.†	444 A.2d 1349	77
1982	Perkins v. Windsor Hospital Corp.	455 A.2d 810	48
1980	R. E. Bean Construction Co. v. Middlebury Associates & Middlebury Developers, Inc.†	139 Vt. 200	48
1979	State v. Warshow†	410 A.2d 1000	42
1960	Marshall v. Town of Brattleboro†	160 A.2d 762	40
1965	In Re Dobson†	212 A.2d 620	39
1963	Grow v. Wolcott†	194 A.2d 403	38
1982	State v. Ludlow Supermarkets, Inc.†	448 A.2d 791	37
1974	State v. St. Peter†	315 A.2d 254	37
1971	State v. Oakes†	276 A.2d 18	37
1974	Rivers v. State†	328 A.2d 398	36
1982	State v. Savo†	446 A.2d 786	35
1972	Tracy v. Vinton Motors, Inc.†	296 A.2d 269	35
1978	State v. Smith†	396 A.2d 126	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 463 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 Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Albert W. Barney Jr. on?: Albert W. Barney Jr. was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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