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 1978 / Served to 2004

David A. Brock

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

David A. Brock was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1978–2004 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–
1978	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College

Judicial Record

In our data, Brock authored 819 published opinions for the court (1978–2004), plus 36 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Lawton v. Great Southwest Fire Insurance (127 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. 877 of these were attributed to Brock 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
1978	Lawton v. Great Southwest Fire Insurance†	118 N.H. 607	127
1981	State v. Howard†	121 N.H. 53	119
1993	State v. Cressey†	137 N.H. 402	94
1992	Great Lakes Aircraft Co. v. City of Claremont†	135 N.H. 270	94
1979	McGranahan v. Dahar†	119 N.H. 758	85
1985	Murphy v. Financial Development Corp.· Dissent†	126 N.H. 536	77
1993	ERG, Inc. v. Barnes†	137 N.H. 186	76
1992	Coakley v. Maine Bonding & Casualty Co.· Dissent†	136 N.H. 402	74
1997	Claremont School District v. Governor†	142 N.H. 462	71
1985	State v. Benoit· Concurrence†	126 N.H. 6	71
1983	McLaughlin v. Sullivan†	123 N.H. 335	68
1990	State v. Pellicci· Concurrence†	133 N.H. 523	65
1985	State v. Koppel†	127 N.H. 286	65
1979	Estate of Cargill v. City of Rochester†	119 N.H. 661	65
1994	High Country Associates v. New Hampshire Insurance†	139 N.H. 39	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 877 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 David A. Brock on?: David A. Brock was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

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26 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).