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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1955 / Served to 1963

Benjamin N. Hulburd

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Benjamin N. Hulburd was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1898–1964
Tenure: 1955–1963 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hulburd authored 73 published opinions for the court (1955–1963), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Hood (46 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. 79 of these were attributed to Hulburd 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
1963	State v. Hood†	187 A.2d 499	46
1963	Grow v. Wolcott· Dissent†	194 A.2d 403	38
1957	McLaughlin v. Blake†	136 A.2d 492	34
1962	Powers v. State Highway Board†	178 A.2d 390	29
1961	Penna v. State Highway Board†	170 A.2d 630	22
1961	Gage v. Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company†	169 A.2d 29	22
1959	Reed v. Allen†	153 A.2d 74	21
1960	Bresette v. Knapp†	159 A.2d 329	20
1956	State v. Graves†	122 A.2d 840	19
1958	State v. Labonte†	144 A.2d 792	18
1956	Buttolph v. Osborn†	119 A.2d 686	18
1956	State v. Anderson†	125 A.2d 827	17
1956	Fort Orange Council, Inc. v. French†	125 A.2d 835	17
1961	Newton v. Smith Motors, Inc.· Dissent†	175 A.2d 514	16
1963	Kenney v. Rockingham School District†	190 A.2d 702	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 79 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 Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Benjamin N. Hulburd on?: Benjamin N. Hulburd was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

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