How do judges of the Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Appeals Court / Joined 1972 / Served to 1979

Edmund V. Keville

Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court

Edmund V. Keville was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1972–1979 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Massachusetts Appeals Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Keville authored 111 published opinions for the court (1972–1979), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Steranko v. Inforex, Inc. (104 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. 41 of these were attributed to Keville 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
1977	Steranko v. Inforex, Inc.	362 N.E.2d 222	104
1978	Loranger Construction Corp. v. E. F. Hauserman Co.	374 N.E.2d 306	72
1977	McKenna v. Begin	362 N.E.2d 548	51
1977	Commonwealth v. Campbell	366 N.E.2d 44	33
1978	Brophy v. School Committee of Worcester	383 N.E.2d 521	25
1978	Blake v. Springfield Street Railway Co.	379 N.E.2d 1112	25
1976	Frank J. Linhares Co., Inc. v. Reliance Ins. Co.	357 N.E.2d 313	25
1975	Jones v. Gingras	331 N.E.2d 819	25
1974	Commonwealth v. Conway	316 N.E.2d 757	25
1977	Commonwealth v. Tisserand	363 N.E.2d 530	23
1978	Fioravanti v. State Racing Commission	375 N.E.2d 722	22
1975	McKenna v. Begin	325 N.E.2d 587	21
1977	Commonwealth v. Schlieff	369 N.E.2d 723	20
1978	Commonwealth v. Mascolo	375 N.E.2d 17	18
1977	Commonwealth v. Goldman	367 N.E.2d 1181	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 114 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 Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Edmund V. Keville on?: Edmund V. Keville was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

7 years on the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).