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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 2007 / Active

Ellen A. Gorman

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Ellen A. Gorman is a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1955 · age 71
Tenure: Since 2007 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Trinity College
Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gorman authored 193 published opinions for the court (2007–2019), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Bank of American, N.A. v. Scott A. Greenleaf (194 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. 193 of these were attributed to Gorman 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
2014	Bank of American, N.A. v. Scott A. Greenleaf†	2014 ME 89	194
2014	James M. Dickau v. Vermont Mutual Insurance Co.†	2014 ME 158	99
2012	Daniels v. Narraguagus Bay Health Care Facility†	2012 ME 80	57
2008	Mills v. Town of Eliot†	955 A.2d 258	54
2014	Matthew W. Pitts v. Amanda M. Moore†	2014 ME 59	50
2016	Oceanic Inn, Inc. v. Sloan's Cove, LLC†	2016 ME 34	48
2011	Bizier v. Town of Turner†	32 A.3d 1048	47
2018	Wawenock, LLC v. Department of Transportation†	2018 ME 83	46
2017	Dana Desjardins v. Michael Reynolds†	2017 ME 99	43
2013	MaineToday Media, Inc. v. State of Maine†	2013 ME 100	42
2016	State of Maine v. Timothy M. Hunt†	2016 ME 172	36
2011	Concerned Citizens to Save Roxbury v. Board of Environmental Protection†	15 A.3d 1263	34
2012	Budge v. Town of Millinocket†	55 A.3d 484	32
2011	Davis v. R C & Sons Paving, Inc.†	26 A.3d 787	31
2013	Gary Sleeper v. Donald R. Loring†	2013 ME 112	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 195 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 is Ellen A. Gorman on?: Ellen A. Gorman is a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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18 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).