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 1946 / Served to 1977

Frank Rowe Kenison

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Frank Rowe Kenison was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1946. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1980
Tenure: 1946–1977 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1946	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College
Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Kenison authored 655 published opinions for the court (1946–1977), plus 21 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Clark v. Clark (164 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. 127 of these were attributed to Kenison 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
1966	Clark v. Clark	107 N.H. 351	164
1973	Sargent v. Ross	113 N.H. 388	120
1977	Raymond v. Eli Lilly & Co.	117 N.H. 164	103
1964	Hamberger v. Eastman	106 N.H. 107	88
1965	Ramsey v. Anctil	106 N.H. 375	64
1960	Smith v. American Employers' Insurance· Dissent†	102 N.H. 530	59
1965	Maryland Casualty Co. v. Howe	106 N.H. 422	57
1974	Leeper v. Leeper	114 N.H. 294	54
1974	Duval v. Duval	114 N.H. 422	52
1977	Brown v. Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital	117 N.H. 739	48
1974	State v. Booton	114 N.H. 750	46
1973	Harlan v. State	113 N.H. 194	43
1973	Muzzy v. Rockingham County Trust Co.	113 N.H. 520	42
1972	Mans v. Lebanon School Board	112 N.H. 160	40
1956	Russell v. Arthur Whitcomb, Inc.	100 N.H. 171	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 686 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 Frank Rowe Kenison on?: Frank Rowe Kenison was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

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31 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).