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 1980 / Served to 1983

Gene Carter

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Gene Carter was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1980–1983 · 2 yrs
Education: University of Maine 1958

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

New York University
University of Maine	B.A.	1958

Judicial Record

In our data, Carter authored 114 published opinions for the court (1980–1983), plus 12 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Harmon v. Emerson (160 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. 134 of these were attributed to Carter 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
1981	Harmon v. Emerson†	425 A.2d 978	160
1982	Myrick v. James†	444 A.2d 987	122
1983	Portland Valve, Inc. v. Rockwood Systems Corp.†	460 A.2d 1383	99
1981	State v. Crocker· Concurrence†	435 A.2d 58	98
1982	Comeau v. Maine Coastal Services· Concurrence†	449 A.2d 362	49
1983	Connolly v. Royal Globe Insurance†	455 A.2d 932	46
1982	State v. Ledger†	444 A.2d 404	45
1983	Cyr v. Michaud†	454 A.2d 1376	44
1981	State v. LeClair†	425 A.2d 182	44
1981	Franklin Property Trust v. Foresite, Inc.†	438 A.2d 218	43
1981	State v. Hilton· Concurrence†	431 A.2d 1296	42
1981	Brann v. State†	424 A.2d 699	39
1980	Qualey v. Fulton†	422 A.2d 773	39
1982	Beaulieu v. City of Lewiston†	440 A.2d 334	38
1981	State v. Conner†	434 A.2d 509	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 134 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 Gene Carter on?: Gene Carter was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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2 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).