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 1949 / Served to 1979

Edward John Lampron

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Edward John Lampron was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1909–1983
Tenure: 1949–1979 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Assumption College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lampron authored 546 published opinions for the court (1949–1981), plus 8 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Monge v. Beebe Rubber Co. (299 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. 125 of these were attributed to Lampron 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
1974	Monge v. Beebe Rubber Co.	114 N.H. 130	299
1979	Corso v. Merrill	119 N.H. 647	144
1974	Merrill v. City of Manchester	114 N.H. 722	93
1971	Kline v. Burns	111 N.H. 87	89
1967	State v. Cote	108 N.H. 290	60
1977	State v. Phinney· Concurrence†	117 N.H. 145	59
1959	Lakeman v. LaFrance	102 N.H. 300	55
1975	State v. Arsenault	115 N.H. 109	54
1967	Griswold v. Heat Corporation	108 N.H. 119	54
1958	Bennett v. Hymers	101 N.H. 483	54
1961	Chagnon v. Union-Leader Corp.	103 N.H. 426	52
1976	State v. Breest	116 N.H. 734	51
1972	Vratsenes v. N. H. Auto, Inc.	112 N.H. 71	51
1963	Peerless Insurance v. Clough· Dissent†	105 N.H. 76	50
1978	Munson v. Raudonis	118 N.H. 474	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 557 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 Edward John Lampron on?: Edward John Lampron was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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30 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).