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 1992 / Served to 2004

E. Norman Veasey

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

E. Norman Veasey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1933 · age 93
Tenure: 1992–2004 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College
University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Veasey authored 154 published opinions for the court (1992–2004), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Brehm v. Eisner (877 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. 158 of these were attributed to Veasey 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
2000	Brehm v. Eisner†	746 A.2d 244	877
1993	Rales v. Blasband Ex Rel. Easco Hand Tools, Inc.†	634 A.2d 927	768
1992	Rhone-Poulenc Basic Chemicals Co. v. American Motorists Insurance Co.†	616 A.2d 1192	606
2001	Malpiede v. Townson†	780 A.2d 1075	604
2004	Tooley v. Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette, Inc.†	845 A.2d 1031	479
1997	Eagle Industries, Inc. v. DeVilbiss Health Care, Inc.†	702 A.2d 1228	397
2004	Beam Ex Rel. M. Stewart Living v. Stewart†	845 A.2d 1040	368
1998	Ramunno v. Cawley†	705 A.2d 1029	318
1995	In Re Santa Fe Pacific Corp. Shareholder Litigation†	669 A.2d 59	306
1996	Dawson v. State†	673 A.2d 1186	276
1994	Paramount Communications Inc. v. QVC Network Inc.†	637 A.2d 34	265
1994	Arnold v. Society for Savings Bancorp, Inc.†	650 A.2d 1270	251
1996	Grimes v. Donald†	673 A.2d 1207	233
1999	Jones v. State†	745 A.2d 856	208
1996	E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co. v. Pressman†	679 A.2d 436	208

Showing the 15 most-cited of 158 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 E. Norman Veasey on?: E. Norman Veasey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

Sources

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12 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).