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 1969 / Served to 1980

Charles A. Pomeroy

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Charles A. Pomeroy was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1993
Tenure: 1969–1980 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pomeroy authored 238 published opinions for the court (1969–1979), plus 4 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Poulin v. Colby College (104 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. 247 of these were attributed to Pomeroy 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
1979	Poulin v. Colby College†	402 A.2d 846	104
1973	Wing v. Morse†	300 A.2d 491	101
1973	Danforth v. State Department of Health and Welfare†	303 A.2d 794	83
1978	Maine Human Rights Commission v. Local 1361, United Paperworkers International Union AFL-CIO†	383 A.2d 369	69
1973	Portland Pipe Line Corp. v. Environmental Improvement Commission†	307 A.2d 1	69
1978	New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Public Utilities Commission†	390 A.2d 8	68
1976	Estate of Berthiaume v. PRATT, MD†	365 A.2d 792	61
1972	State v. White†	285 A.2d 832	61
1970	Wallace v. Coca-Cola Bottling Plants, Inc.†	269 A.2d 117	61
1975	Horner v. Flynn†	334 A.2d 194	56
1977	State v. Lewisohn· Dissent†	379 A.2d 1192	47
1974	Frank v. Assessors of Skowhegan†	329 A.2d 167	44
1973	Foss v. Maine Turnpike Authority†	309 A.2d 339	44
1971	State v. Toppi†	275 A.2d 805	44
1978	Maine Central Railroad v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad†	395 A.2d 1107	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 247 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 Charles A. Pomeroy on?: Charles A. Pomeroy was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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10 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).