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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 2011 / Former Justice

Beth Robinson

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Beth Robinson was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2011 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College
University of Chicago

Judicial Record

In our data, Robinson authored 165 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 36 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Mark Bergquist (327 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. 230 of these were attributed to Robinson 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
2019	State v. Mark Bergquist†	211 A.3d 946	327
2015	State v. David Tracy†	2015 VT 111	184
2012	In re C. P.· Concurrence†	193 Vt. 29	84
2019	Darryl R. Montague v. Hundred Acre Homestead, LLC†	208 A.3d 609	75
2017	Leo P. Pratt, III v. Andrew Pallito, Commissioner, Department of Corrections†	167 A.3d 320	51
2017	Grant Taylor & Richard Scheiber v. Town of Cabot, The Cabot Community Association, Inc., and United Church of Cabot, Inc.†	178 A.3d 313	47
2013	In re D.D.· Concurrence†	194 Vt. 508	43
2013	Vincent v. DeVries†	193 Vt. 574	40
2017	Joseph L. LeClair v. Hector LeClair· Concurrence†	169 A.3d 743	37
2013	Kellogg v. Shushereba· Concurrence†	194 Vt. 446	37
2015	Walsh v. Cluba and Good Stuff, Inc.· Concurrence†	198 Vt. 453	34
2014	In re B.R.· Dissent†	196 Vt. 304	34
2016	In re LaBerge NOV†	2016 VT 99	33
2019	In re N.L., Juvenile· Concurrence†	207 A.3d 475	32
2018	Kneebinding, Inc., John Springer-Miller, Tina Springer-Miller and ACL Investments, LLC v. Richard Howell†	201 A.3d 326	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 230 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 Beth Robinson on?: Beth Robinson was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

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14 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).