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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 1965 / Served to 1985

Daniel L. Herrmann

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Daniel L. Herrmann was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1985 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Herrmann authored 345 published opinions for the court (1965–1999), plus 6 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Hughes v. State (172 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. 314 of these were attributed to Herrmann 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
1981	Hughes v. State	437 A.2d 559	172
1971	Schnell v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc.†	285 A.2d 437	164
1968	Layton v. Allen†	246 A.2d 794	135
1982	Giuricich v. Emtrol Corp.†	449 A.2d 232	110
1974	Justice Ex Rel. Justice v. Gatchell†	325 A.2d 97	99
1982	CM & M GROUP, INC. v. Carroll†	453 A.2d 788	84
1973	Pittman v. State· Dissent†	301 A.2d 509	79
1985	Deputy v. State†	500 A.2d 581	73
1978	Moskowitz v. Mayor & Council of Wilmington†	391 A.2d 209	73
1982	Fiduciary Trust Co. v. Fiduciary Trust Co.†	445 A.2d 927	70
1985	Cheswold Volunteer Fire Co. v. Lambertson Construction Co.†	489 A.2d 413	67
1983	Lampkins v. State†	465 A.2d 785	65
1980	Wilmington Trust Co. v. Conner†	415 A.2d 773	63
1973	Storey v. Castner	314 A.2d 187	62
1980	Cline v. Prowler Industries of MaryLand, Inc.†	418 A.2d 968	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 352 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 Daniel L. Herrmann on?: Daniel L. Herrmann was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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20 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).