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 1947 / Served to 1962

Edward P. Murray

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Edward P. Murray was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1876–1966
Tenure: 1947–1962 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

University of Maine

Judicial Record

In our data, Murray authored 14 published opinions for the court (1947–1958), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Greaves v. Houlton Water Co. (19 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. 15 of these were attributed to Murray 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
1948	Greaves v. Houlton Water Co.†	143 Me. 207	19
1953	Talberth v. Guy Gannett Publishing Co.· Dissent†	100 A.2d 726	9
1948	Brown v. McCaffrey†	143 Me. 221	9
1956	Briggs v. State†	126 A.2d 563	8
1956	Application of Ballard†	125 A.2d 861	7
1956	Wood v. LeGoff†	121 A.2d 468	7
1958	Strout v. Little River Bank & Trust Co.†	149 Me. 181	5
1956	State v. Melanson· Dissent†	126 A.2d 278	5
1948	Dunham v. Hogan†	143 Me. 142	5
1953	Hamilton v. Littlefield†	98 A.2d 545	4
1949	Brooks v. Clifford†	144 Me. 370	4
1956	Berman v. Shalit†	128 A.2d 345	3
1947	Clifford L. Swan Co. v. Cook†	143 Me. 109	3
1953	Bryant v. Bryant†	149 Me. 276	2
1956	Jaeger v. Cutting†	152 Me. 136	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 16 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 Edward P. Murray on?: Edward P. Murray was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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15 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).