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 1923 / Served to 1949

Guy H. Sturgis

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Guy H. Sturgis was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (15 judges, selected by gubernatorial appointment), who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1877–1951
Tenure: 1923–1949 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Bowdoin College
Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Sturgis authored 227 published opinions for the court (1924–1949), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Corthell v. Summit Thread Co. (66 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. 228 of these were attributed to Sturgis 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
1933	Corthell v. Summit Thread Co.†	132 Me. 94	66
1936	Miller v. Fallon†	134 Me. 145	56
1929	State v. Wright†	128 Me. 404	56
1943	Roy v. Bolduc†	140 Me. 103	37
1939	Rell v. State†	136 Me. 322	27
1932	Sacknoff v. Sacknoff†	131 Me. 280	27
1927	Paine v. Savage†	126 Me. 121	25
1930	Eldridge v. May†	129 Me. 112	23
1930	Peasley v. White†	129 Me. 450	21
1926	State v. Webber†	125 Me. 319	21
1939	Ross v. Porteous, Mitchell & Braun Co.†	136 Me. 118	20
1937	Illingworth v. Madden†	135 Me. 159	20
1937	Gerrish v. Chambers†	135 Me. 70	20
1932	Wells v. Gould†	131 Me. 192	20
1930	Mallett v. Hall†	129 Me. 148	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 228 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 Guy H. Sturgis on?: Guy H. Sturgis was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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25 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).