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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 1983 / Served to 1992

Andrew D. Christie

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Andrew D. Christie was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1992 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Christie authored 100 published opinions for the court (1976–1992), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Younger v. State (781 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. 98 of these were attributed to Christie 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
1990	Younger v. State†	580 A.2d 552	781
1985	Smith v. Van Gorkom· Dissent†	488 A.2d 858	428
1990	Flamer v. State†	585 A.2d 736	248
1990	Skinner v. State†	575 A.2d 1108	111
1988	Fleer Corp. v. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc.†	539 A.2d 1060	111
1991	Funk v. Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board†	591 A.2d 222	97
1987	Van Arsdall v. State†	524 A.2d 3	78
1992	Chao v. State†	604 A.2d 1351	77
1985	Hughes v. State†	490 A.2d 1034	75
1989	In Re Hanks†	553 A.2d 1171	64
1988	Naidu v. Laird†	539 A.2d 1064	58
1988	Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. v. Adams†	541 A.2d 567	57
1985	Doe Ex Rel. Doe v. Cates†	499 A.2d 1175	57
1987	Klair v. Reese†	531 A.2d 219	53
1985	Gannett Co., Inc. v. Re†	496 A.2d 553	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 Supreme Court of Delaware reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Andrew D. Christie on?: Andrew D. Christie was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

Sources

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