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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 1938 / Served to 1964

Charles L. Terry Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Charles L. Terry Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1938. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1962
Tenure: 1938–1964 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1938	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Terry authored 74 published opinions for the court (1939–1964), plus 8 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Tri-Continental Corporation v. Battye (132 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. 17 of these were attributed to Terry 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
1950	Tri-Continental Corporation v. Battye	74 A.2d 71	132
1948	Blish v. Thompson Automatic Arms Corp.	64 A.2d 581	93
1964	General Foods Corporation v. Cryo-Maid, Inc.	198 A.2d 681	86
1964	Cheff v. Mathes	199 A.2d 548	83
1945	Glanding v. Industrial Trust Co.†	28 Del. Ch. 499	71
1964	Rome v. Archer	197 A.2d 49	54
1947	Standard Power & Light Corp. v. Investment Associates, Inc.†	29 Del. Ch. 593	52
1963	Orzeck v. Englehart	195 A.2d 375	48
1963	Wagner v. Shanks	194 A.2d 701	46
1964	George & Lynch, Inc. v. State	197 A.2d 734	44
1964	Howard v. Food Fair Stores, New Castle, Inc.	201 A.2d 638	38
1964	Wilmington Trust Company v. Coulter	200 A.2d 441	36
1964	Saunders v. Hill†	202 A.2d 807	32
1964	Wilmont Homes, Inc. v. Weiler	202 A.2d 576	32
1947	Mayor of Wilmington v. State· Dissent†	44 Del. 332	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 83 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 Charles L. Terry Jr. on?: Charles L. Terry Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

Sources

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26 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).