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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 1994 / Served to 2014

Carolyn Berger

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Carolyn Berger was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1994–2014 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Education

University of Rochester
Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Berger authored 194 published opinions for the court (1994–2014), plus 25 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Savor, Inc. v. FMR Corp. (706 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. 206 of these were attributed to Berger 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
2002	Savor, Inc. v. FMR Corp.†	812 A.2d 894	706
2005	Dunlap v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.†	878 A.2d 434	338
2011	Price v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co.· Dissent†	26 A.3d 162	278
2012	Americas Mining Corp. v. Theriault· Concurrence†	51 A.3d 1213	178
2009	Lyondell Chemical Co. v. Ryan†	970 A.2d 235	145
2006	James & Jackson, LLC. v. Willie Gary, LLC.†	906 A.2d 76	132
1997	Kahn v. Tremont Corp.· Dissent†	694 A.2d 422	122
1999	Parnes v. Bally Entertainment Corp.†	722 A.2d 1243	114
2000	Shepherd v. Clemens· Dissent†	752 A.2d 533	100
1996	Northwestern National Insurance v. Esmark, Inc.†	672 A.2d 41	99
2000	Dorsey v. State· Dissent†	761 A.2d 807	91
2006	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. AIG Life Insurance†	901 A.2d 106	90
2000	Shelton v. State· Dissent†	744 A.2d 465	90
2014	Martinez v. E.i. Dupont De Nemours & Co.· Dissent†	86 A.3d 1102	82
2013	Pyott v. Louisiana Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System†	74 A.3d 612	80

Showing the 15 most-cited of 222 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 Supreme Court of Delaware reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Carolyn Berger on?: Carolyn Berger was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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