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 1977 / Served to 1985

Charles G. Douglas III

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Charles G. Douglas III was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1977–1985 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of New Haven
Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Douglas authored 292 published opinions for the court (1977–1985), plus 23 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ball (762 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. 160 of these were attributed to Douglas 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
1983	State v. Ball†	124 N.H. 226	762
1981	Cloutier v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.†	121 N.H. 915	161
1978	Thibault v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.	118 N.H. 802	148
1977	Harkeem v. Adams†	117 N.H. 687	143
1980	Trombly v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield	120 N.H. 764	96
1983	Heath v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.	123 N.H. 512	91
1985	Murphy v. Financial Development Corp.†	126 N.H. 536	77
1985	State v. Benoit†	126 N.H. 6	71
1978	State v. ROBERT H. ____	118 N.H. 713	67
1979	Estate of Cargill v. City of Rochester· Dissent†	119 N.H. 661	65
1984	Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc.· Dissent†	124 N.H. 719	59
1983	United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Johnson Shoes, Inc.	123 N.H. 148	58
1978	Novosel v. Helgemoe	118 N.H. 115	47
1978	Royer v. State Department of Employment Security· Concurrence†	118 N.H. 673	45
1978	State v. Farrow	118 N.H. 296	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 332 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 was Charles G. Douglas III on?: Charles G. Douglas III was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 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).