How do judges of the New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Hampshire Supreme Court / Joined 2009 / Active

Carol Ann Conboy

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Carol Ann Conboy is a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Conboy authored 182 published opinions for the court (2009–2017), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Tessier v. Rockefeller (111 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. 139 of these were attributed to Conboy 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
2011	Tessier v. Rockefeller†	162 N.H. 324	111
2010	Beane v. Dana S. Beane & Co., P.C.	7 A.3d 1284	76
2012	Town of Atkinson v. Malborn Realty Trust†	164 N.H. 62	49
2011	State v. Etienne†	163 N.H. 57	47
2017	State v. Kevin Lynch†	156 A.3d 1012	44
2011	State v. Guay†	162 N.H. 375	38
2013	State v. Germain†	165 N.H. 350	34
2013	In re Muller†	164 N.H. 512	31
2015	Mellin v. Northern Security Insurance†	167 N.H. 544	30
2017	Beverly A. Cluff-Landry v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester†	156 A.3d 147	28
2012	Antosz v. Allain†	163 N.H. 298	28
2016	In the Matter of Paula Geraghty and Kenneth Geraghty†	150 A.3d 386	27
2012	State v. Brooks†	164 N.H. 272	24
2013	Foundation for Seacoast Health v. Hospital Corp. of America†	165 N.H. 168	23
2013	State v. Dion†	164 N.H. 544	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 189 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 New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Carol Ann Conboy on?: Carol Ann Conboy is a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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