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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1956 / Served to 1962

Frederick Harold Dubord

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Frederick Harold Dubord was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1964
Tenure: 1956–1962 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Colby College
Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dubord authored 52 published opinions for the court (1957–1962), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Couture (29 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. 54 of these were attributed to Dubord 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
1960	State v. Couture†	163 A.2d 646	29
1959	Cianchette v. Verrier†	151 A.2d 502	26
1959	Squires v. Inhabitants of City of Augusta· Dissent†	153 A.2d 80	23
1958	Ward v. Merrill†	141 A.2d 438	21
1960	Harriman v. Spaulding†	165 A.2d 47	20
1958	Public Utilities Commission v. Cole's Express†	138 A.2d 466	20
1959	Bragdon v. Worthley†	153 A.2d 627	17
1960	State v. Blanchard†	159 A.2d 304	15
1959	State v. Benson†	151 A.2d 266	15
1962	Boulet v. Beals†	177 A.2d 665	13
1957	Fiduciary Trust Co. v. Brown†	131 A.2d 191	13
1960	In re Casco Bank & Trust Co.†	156 Me. 508	12
1960	State v. Larrabee†	161 A.2d 855	11
1962	State v. Beckwith†	180 A.2d 605	10
1962	Unity Telephone Co. v. Design Service Co. of New York†	179 A.2d 804	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 55 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 Frederick Harold Dubord on?: Frederick Harold Dubord was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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6 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).