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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 2013 / Former Justice

Geoffrey William Crawford

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Geoffrey William Crawford was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2013. He earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: 2013 · 12 yrs
Education: Yale 1977 · Harvard

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University	B.A.	1977
Harvard University	J.D.	1980

Judicial Record

In our data, Crawford authored 19 published opinions for the court (2014), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Stone v. Irasburg, Town of (42 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. 20 of these were attributed to Crawford 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
2014	Stone v. Irasburg, Town of†	196 Vt. 356	42
2014	State v. Reynolds†	196 Vt. 113	20
2014	Lasek v. Vermont Vapor, Inc., and Downing Properties, LLC†	196 Vt. 243	18
2014	863 To Go, Inc. v. Department of Labor†	196 Vt. 551	16
2014	O'Rourke v. Lunde and The Housing Group Limited Partnership†	197 Vt. 360	15
2014	State v. Morse· Dissent†	197 Vt. 495	12
2014	State v. Porter, Jr.†	197 Vt. 330	11
2014	Kelley v. Department of Labor†	197 Vt. 155	11
2014	Martin Ex Rel. Martin v. Christman†	196 Vt. 536	11
2014	In re Programmatic Changes to the Standard-Offer Program†	196 Vt. 175	11
2014	Paine v. Buffa†	195 Vt. 596	11
2014	Cameron v. Rollo†	196 Vt. 346	10
2014	Lathrop v. Town of Monkton†	195 Vt. 564	9
2014	In re Williams†	197 Vt. 39	8
2014	State v. Spaulding†	197 Vt. 378	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 20 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 Geoffrey William Crawford on?: Geoffrey William Crawford was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

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