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 1981 / Served to 1994

Elmer H. Violette

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Elmer H. Violette was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–2000
Tenure: 1981–1994 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Violette authored 104 published opinions for the court (1981–1986), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: Tuttle v. Raymond (239 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. 109 of these were attributed to Violette 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
1985	Tuttle v. Raymond†	494 A.2d 1353	239
1982	Culbert v. Sampson's Supermarkets Inc.†	444 A.2d 433	83
1983	Faucher v. City of Auburn†	465 A.2d 1120	53
1984	Packard v. Central Maine Power Co.†	477 A.2d 264	49
1983	In Re Sabrina M.†	460 A.2d 1009	42
1984	In Re Daniel C.· Dissent†	480 A.2d 766	35
1984	Maine Human Rights Commission Ex Rel. Kellman v. Department of Corrections†	474 A.2d 860	33
1983	Terry v. St. Regis Paper Co.†	459 A.2d 1106	32
1982	Bangor Motor Co. v. Chapman†	452 A.2d 389	32
1985	In Re John Joseph V.†	500 A.2d 628	31
1983	State v. Durgan†	467 A.2d 165	30
1983	Cushing v. Smith†	457 A.2d 816	27
1982	State v. Joy†	452 A.2d 408	26
1984	Eckenrode v. Heritage Management Corp.†	480 A.2d 759	25
1982	Levesque v. Inhabitants of Town of Eliot†	448 A.2d 876	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 109 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 Elmer H. Violette on?: Elmer H. Violette was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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12 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).