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 2010 / Former Justice

Gilbert V. Indeglia

Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court

Gilbert V. Indeglia was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1941 · age 85
Tenure: 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Rhode Island Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Boston College

Judicial Record

In our data, Indeglia authored 182 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 6 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Walter J. Mruk, Jr. v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (53 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. 189 of these were attributed to Indeglia 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
2013	Walter J. Mruk, Jr. v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.†	82 A.3d 527	53
2011	State v. Pineda†	13 A.3d 623	37
2012	Rice v. State†	38 A.3d 9	35
2011	In Re Review of Proposed Town of New Shoreham Project†	25 A.3d 482	34
2011	Horton v. Portsmouth Police Department†	22 A.3d 1115	31
2011	Cahill v. Morrow†	11 A.3d 82	30
2013	Sisto v. America Condominium Ass'n†	68 A.3d 603	29
2012	Jennifer Swain v. Estate of Shelley A. Tyre by and through James H. Reilly as Administrator d.b.n, c.t.a.†	57 A.3d 283	29
2012	State v. CIRESI†	45 A.3d 1201	27
2011	Brown v. State†	32 A.3d 901	26
2011	State v. Laurence†	18 A.3d 512	26
2014	Simcha Berman v. Laura Sitrin, in her capacity as Finance Director for the City of Newport†	101 A.3d 1251	23
2014	Narragansett Indian Tribe v. State of Rhode Island and UTGR, Inc. d/b/a Twin River and Newport Grand, LLC,Intervenor†	81 A.3d 1106	23
2013	Nelson Cruz v. DaimlerChrysler Motors Corp.†	66 A.3d 446	22
2010	State v. Ruffner†	5 A.3d 864	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 189 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 Gilbert V. Indeglia on?: Gilbert V. Indeglia was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Sources

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16 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).