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 1942 / Served to 1952

Arthur Chapman

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Arthur Chapman was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1873–1959
Tenure: 1942–1952 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College

Judicial Record

In our data, Chapman authored 21 published opinions for the court (1943–1946), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Stevens v. Frost (30 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. 23 of these were attributed to Chapman 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
1943	Stevens v. Frost†	140 Me. 1	30
1944	Saco Dairy Co. v. Norton†	140 Me. 204	29
1943	Monk v. Morton†	139 Me. 291	26
1943	Robitaille's Case†	140 Me. 121	23
1943	Sweeney v. Dahl†	140 Me. 133	22
1945	Larson v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.†	141 Me. 326	14
1944	Portland Terminal Co. v. Hinds†	141 Me. 68	13
1943	Steves v. Robie†	139 Me. 359	12
1945	Hutchins v. Hutchins†	141 Me. 183	6
1944	Knowles v. Wolman†	141 Me. 120	5
1945	State v. Wagner†	141 Me. 403	4
1944	Roukos†	141 Me. 83	3
1944	Roukos†	140 Me. 183	3
1943	Colby v. Tarr†	139 Me. 277	3
1944	Waye v. Decoster†	140 Me. 192	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 23 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 Arthur Chapman on?: Arthur Chapman was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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10 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).