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 1983 / Served to 1997

Caroline Duby Glassman

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Caroline Duby Glassman was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–2013
Tenure: 1983–1997 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Eastern Oregon University
Willamette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Glassman authored 499 published opinions for the court (1983–1997), plus 48 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Hewey (110 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. 559 of these were attributed to Glassman 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
1993	State v. Hewey†	622 A.2d 1151	110
1989	State v. Pinkham· Dissent†	565 A.2d 318	104
1996	Halfway House, Inc. v. City of Portland· Concurrence†	670 A.2d 1377	78
1994	Jordan v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.†	651 A.2d 358	78
1984	Shackford & Gooch, Inc. v. Town of Kennebunk†	486 A.2d 102	56
1993	Henriksen v. Cameron· Dissent†	622 A.2d 1135	54
1988	St. Germain v. Husqvarna Corp.· Dissent†	544 A.2d 1283	53
1997	State v. Ardolino†	1997 ME 141	51
1985	State v. Brewer†	505 A.2d 774	50
1985	Saunders v. VanPelt†	497 A.2d 1121	50
1994	Tondreau v. Sherwin-Williams Co.†	638 A.2d 728	49
1990	Polley v. Atwell†	581 A.2d 410	49
1986	State v. DeLong· Dissent†	505 A.2d 803	48
1985	Anderson v. Commissioner of the Department of Human Services†	489 A.2d 1094	48
1993	DiPietro v. Boynton†	628 A.2d 1019	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 559 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 Caroline Duby Glassman on?: Caroline Duby Glassman was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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13 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).