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 1954 / Served to 1958

Albert Beliveau

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Albert Beliveau was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1971
Tenure: 1954–1958 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

University of Maine

Judicial Record

In our data, Beliveau authored 40 published opinions for the court (1954–1958), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Rosenberg v. Rosenberg (21 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. 41 of these were attributed to Beliveau 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
1956	Rosenberg v. Rosenberg†	125 A.2d 863	21
1954	State v. Casale†	110 A.2d 588	21
1956	Wiley v. SAMPSON-RIPLEY COMPANY†	120 A.2d 289	17
1957	Leavitt v. Davis· Dissent†	136 A.2d 535	11
1957	State v. Albee†	132 A.2d 559	9
1954	Legault v. Decision of Judge of Probate Levesque†	107 A.2d 493	9
1957	Baston v. Robbins†	135 A.2d 279	7
1955	Wintle v. Wright· Dissent†	117 A.2d 68	7
1955	Martin v. Atherton†	116 A.2d 629	7
1957	Cameron v. Stewart†	134 A.2d 474	6
1954	Miller v. Hutchinson†	110 A.2d 577	6
1956	Maplewood Poultry Co. v. Maine Employment Security Commission†	121 A.2d 360	5
1955	Dutch v. Scribner†	118 A.2d 887	5
1955	Bell v. Bell†	116 A.2d 921	5
1957	State v. Croteau†	153 Me. 126	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 42 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 Albert Beliveau on?: Albert Beliveau was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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4 years 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).