How do judges of the Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1987 / Served to 1987

Frank G. Mahady

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Frank G. Mahady was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1987–1987

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mahady authored 8 published opinions for the court (1987–1988), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Pierce v. Riggs (61 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. 8 of these were attributed to Mahady 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
1987	Pierce v. Riggs†	540 A.2d 655	61
1988	State v. Custom Pools	556 A.2d 72	27
1987	Sutfin v. Southworth†	539 A.2d 986	22
1987	State v. LeBlanc· Dissent†	540 A.2d 1037	17
1987	In Re Nash†	539 A.2d 989	16
1987	Utzler v. Medical Center Hosp. of Vermont†	540 A.2d 652	11
1987	State v. Day†	540 A.2d 1042	10
1987	In re Estate of Pomainville†	148 Vt. 526	1
1987	C.I.I. v. Dalton†	148 Vt. 600	0

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Frank G. Mahady on?: Frank G. Mahady was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1987. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).