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 1939 / Served to 1942

George H. Worster

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

George H. Worster was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1871–1965
Tenure: 1939–1942 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

University of Maine

Judicial Record

In our data, Worster authored 20 published opinions for the court (1940–1942), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Bobb (31 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. 22 of these were attributed to Worster 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
1942	State v. Bobb· Concurrence†	138 Me. 242	31
1940	Mitchell v. Mitchell†	136 Me. 406	29
1941	State v. Cox†	138 Me. 151	28
1940	Usen v. Usen†	136 Me. 480	20
1942	Hurd v. Maine Mutual Fire Insurance†	139 Me. 103	16
1942	State v. Berube· Dissent†	139 Me. 11	11
1942	Frost v. Chaplin Motor Co.†	138 Me. 274	11
1940	Wakem v. Inhabitants of Van Buren†	137 Me. 127	11
1942	Beckwith v. Somerset Theatres, Inc.†	139 Me. 65	10
1942	S. D. Warren Co. v. Fritz†	138 Me. 279	8
1942	Strout v. Polakewich†	139 Me. 134	7
1941	Miller v. Ferrocarrill del Pacifico de Nicaragua†	137 Me. 251	7
1940	Chapman v. Portland Country Club†	137 Me. 10	4
1942	Lewis v. Marsters†	139 Me. 17	3
1941	Pierce v. Adams†	137 Me. 281	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 George H. Worster on?: George H. Worster was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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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).