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 1953 / Served to 1973

Donald W. Webber

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Donald W. Webber was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1995
Tenure: 1953–1973 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Bowdoin College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Webber authored 280 published opinions for the court (1953–1973), plus 8 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Millett (73 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. 299 of these were attributed to Webber 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
1971	State v. Millett†	273 A.2d 504	73
1959	Hinds v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.†	155 A.2d 721	58
1973	Picard v. Brennan†	307 A.2d 833	56
1956	State v. Munsey†	127 A.2d 79	50
1966	In Re Richards†	223 A.2d 827	45
1972	Jones v. Billings†	289 A.2d 39	41
1961	State v. Fantastic Fair & Karmil Merchandising Corp.· Concurrence†	158 Me. 450	38
1954	Green Acre Baha'i Institute v. Town of Eliot†	110 A.2d 581	38
1954	Central Maine Power Co. v. Public Utilities Commission†	109 A.2d 512	38
1973	State v. Heald†	314 A.2d 820	37
1971	State v. Wilbur†	278 A.2d 139	35
1969	State v. Chapman†	250 A.2d 203	35
1968	State v. Langley†	242 A.2d 688	35
1955	Dubois v. Maine Employment Security Commission†	114 A.2d 359	34
1967	State v. Coty†	229 A.2d 205	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 303 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 Donald W. Webber on?: Donald W. Webber was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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19 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).