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 1980 / Served to 1998

David Glendenning Roberts

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

David Glendenning Roberts was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–1999
Tenure: 1980–1998 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Bowdoin College

Judicial Record

In our data, Roberts authored 636 published opinions for the court (1980–1998), plus 18 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Adams v. Buffalo Forge Co. (109 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. 674 of these were attributed to Roberts 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
1982	Adams v. Buffalo Forge Co.†	443 A.2d 932	109
1980	Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Dingwell†	414 A.2d 220	95
1989	Peerless Insurance Co. v. Brennon· Dissent†	564 A.2d 383	90
1987	Gammon v. Osteopathic Hospital of Maine, Inc.†	534 A.2d 1282	82
1980	Dunton v. Eastern Fine Paper Company†	423 A.2d 512	80
1998	Withers v. Hackett†	1998 ME 164	78
1998	Potter, Prescott, Jamieson & Nelson, P.A. v. Campbell†	1998 ME 70	78
1998	Livonia v. Town of Rome†	1998 ME 39	74
1980	Woolley v. Henderson· Concurrence†	418 A.2d 1123	62
1993	Interstate Food Processing Corp. v. Pellerito Foods, Inc.†	622 A.2d 1189	59
1981	State v. Flick†	425 A.2d 167	58
1991	State Mutual Insurance v. Bragg†	589 A.2d 35	57
1983	Stanley v. Schiavi Mobile Homes, Inc.†	462 A.2d 1144	54
1980	State v. John W.†	418 A.2d 1097	54
1998	Elliott v. Hanover Insurance Co.†	1998 ME 138	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 675 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 David Glendenning Roberts on?: David Glendenning Roberts was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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18 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).