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 2007 / Active

Andrew M. Mead

Associate Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Andrew M. Mead is an Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

University of Maine
New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, Mead authored 232 published opinions for the court (2007–2026), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: Ramsey v. Baxter Title Co. (83 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. 235 of these were attributed to Mead 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
2012	Ramsey v. Baxter Title Co.†	54 A.3d 710	83
2013	John Doe I v. Robert Williams†	2013 ME 24	72
2007	State v. Dion†	928 A.2d 746	46
2008	BROWN DEVELOPMENT CORP. v. Hemond†	2008 ME 146	40
2013	Vitorino America v. Sunspray Condominium Association†	2013 ME 19	35
2010	State v. Lavoie†	2010 ME 76	35
2008	State v. Porter†	960 A.2d 321	34
2014	Janet Howe v. MMG Insurance Company†	2014 ME 78	33
2014	State of Maine v. Arnold A. Diana†	2014 ME 45	32
2010	Searle v. Town of Bucksport†	2010 ME 89	32
2009	Fiber Materials, Inc. v. Subilia†	2009 ME 71	32
2012	State v. Jones†	46 A.3d 1125	31
2008	Jade Realty Corp. v. Town of Eliot†	946 A.2d 408	26
2012	Kezer v. Central Maine Medical Center†	40 A.3d 955	25
2012	Laux v. Harrington†	38 A.3d 318	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 239 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 is Andrew M. Mead on?: Andrew M. Mead is an Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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19 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).