How do judges of the Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Rhode Island Supreme Court / Joined 1959 / Served to 1963

G. Frederick Frost

Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court

G. Frederick Frost was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1872–1964
Tenure: 1959–1963 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Rhode Island Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Brown University
Brown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Frost authored 102 published opinions for the court (1959–1963), plus 7 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Moore v. Langton (27 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. 55 of these were attributed to Frost 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
1961	Moore v. Langton	167 A.2d 558	27
1960	Lamoureux v. Burrillville Racing Ass'n	161 A.2d 213	26
1960	Lescault v. Zoning Board of Review of Cumberland	162 A.2d 807	15
1961	Landers v. Reynolds	169 A.2d 367	14
1960	De Mello v. Saint Thomas the Apostle Church Corp.	165 A.2d 500	14
1960	Pacheco v. Lachapelle	163 A.2d 38	14
1961	Long v. Langlois	170 A.2d 618	13
1960	Colagiovanni v. Zoning Bd. of Review of Providence	158 A.2d 158	12
1959	Goyette v. Sousa· Dissent†	153 A.2d 509	12
1961	Santoro v. Zoning Board of Review†	93 R.I. 68	11
1959	Bastedo v. Board of Review†	89 R.I. 420	11
1959	State v. Settle	156 A.2d 921	10
1962	Gomes v. BRISTOL MANUFACTURING CORPORATION	184 A.2d 787	9
1960	Cavanagh v. Bostitch, Inc.· Dissent†	162 A.2d 785	9
1959	Powers v. Langlois	153 A.2d 535	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 110 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 Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was G. Frederick Frost on?: G. Frederick Frost was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

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4 years on the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).