How do judges of the Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Appeals Court / Joined 2006 / Active

Andrew R. Grainger

Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court

Andrew R. Grainger is a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Massachusetts Appeals Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Grainger authored 78 published opinions for the court (2006–2016), plus 5 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Bell (35 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. 88 of these were attributed to Grainger 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
2013	Commonwealth v. Bell· Dissent†	83 Mass. App. Ct. 82	35
2008	Cachopa v. Town of Stoughton†	72 Mass. App. Ct. 657	27
2016	Duff v. McKay· Concurrence†	89 Mass. App. Ct. 538	26
2007	Cahaly v. Benistar Property Exchange Trust Co.†	68 Mass. App. Ct. 668	25
2006	Wang v. Niakaros†	67 Mass. App. Ct. 166	19
2011	Short v. Marinas USA Ltd. Partnership†	78 Mass. App. Ct. 848	16
2010	Williams v. O'Brien†	78 Mass. App. Ct. 169	15
2008	Steinert v. Steinert†	73 Mass. App. Ct. 287	14
2013	Diamond Group, Inc. v. Selective Distribution International, Inc.· Dissent†	84 Mass. App. Ct. 545	13
2013	T. Butera Auburn, LLC v. Williams· Dissent†	83 Mass. App. Ct. 496	13
2011	Commonwealth v. Greenwood†	78 Mass. App. Ct. 611	12
2009	Grassi Design Group, Inc. v. Bank of America, N.A.†	74 Mass. App. Ct. 456	12
2008	McCrea v. Flaherty†	71 Mass. App. Ct. 637	12
2008	Commonwealth v. Ocasio†	71 Mass. App. Ct. 304	12
2007	Commonwealth v. Campbell†	69 Mass. App. Ct. 212	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 89 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 Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Andrew R. Grainger on?: Andrew R. Grainger is a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

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