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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1949 / Served to 1959

Charles Bayley Adams

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Charles Bayley Adams was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1949–1959 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Adams authored 84 published opinions for the court (1949–1959), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: State v. Goyet (70 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. 78 of these were attributed to Adams 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
1957	State v. Goyet†	132 A.2d 623	70
1950	Foster v. Roman Catholic Diocese	70 A.2d 230	50
1955	Gifford Memorial Hospital v. Town of Randolph†	118 A.2d 480	45
1955	Loeb v. Loeb†	114 A.2d 518	43
1953	State v. Blair†	99 A.2d 677	30
1955	Laferriere v. Saliba†	117 A.2d 380	29
1954	Farm Bureau Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Houle†	102 A.2d 326	29
1952	Smith v. Highway Board†	91 A.2d 805	27
1956	Hanley v. United Steel Workers of America†	122 A.2d 872	24
1956	Smith v. Grove†	119 A.2d 880	24
1949	Curran v. Bray Wood Heel Co., Inc.	68 A.2d 712	24
1958	In Re Mattison's Petition†	144 A.2d 778	22
1950	Ricci v. Bove's Estate†	75 A.2d 682	22
1959	New England Road MacHinery Co. v. Calkins†	149 A.2d 734	19
1958	O'BRIEN v. Dewey†	143 A.2d 130	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 85 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 Charles Bayley Adams on?: Charles Bayley Adams was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).