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 1958 / Served to 1965

Cecil J. Siddall

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Cecil J. Siddall was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1894–1986
Tenure: 1958–1965 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

University of Maine

Judicial Record

In our data, Siddall authored 48 published opinions for the court (1958–1965), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Beckwith v. Rossi (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. 49 of these were attributed to Siddall 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
1961	Beckwith v. Rossi†	175 A.2d 732	46
1961	Bonnar-Vawter, Inc. v. Johnson†	173 A.2d 141	43
1960	State v. London†	162 A.2d 150	37
1964	Wright v. Michaud†	200 A.2d 543	33
1962	State v. Wardwell†	183 A.2d 896	29
1962	State v. Berube†	185 A.2d 900	24
1959	Lambrou v. Berna†	148 A.2d 697	24
1959	First Portland National Bank v. Kaler-Vaill Memorial Home†	151 A.2d 708	19
1964	MacLean v. Jack†	198 A.2d 1	18
1961	State v. Sanborn· Dissent†	173 A.2d 854	18
1962	Carey v. Boulette†	182 A.2d 473	15
1959	Emple Knitting Mills v. City of Bangor†	153 A.2d 118	13
1965	Young v. Johnson†	207 A.2d 392	12
1964	Maine Milk Commission v. Cumberland Farms Northern, Inc.†	205 A.2d 146	11
1964	Cole v. Lord†	202 A.2d 560	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 49 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 Cecil J. Siddall on?: Cecil J. Siddall was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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6 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).