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 1962 / Served to 1970

Harold C. Marden

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Harold C. Marden was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1994
Tenure: 1962–1970 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Colby College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Marden authored 125 published opinions for the court (1963–1970), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Warner (47 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. 125 of these were attributed to Marden 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
1967	State v. Warner· Dissent†	237 A.2d 150	47
1965	State v. MacKenzie†	210 A.2d 24	38
1970	State v. Johnson†	265 A.2d 711	32
1964	General Motors Acceptance Corporation v. Anacone†	197 A.2d 506	31
1970	State v. Alley†	263 A.2d 66	30
1968	Belanger v. Belanger†	240 A.2d 743	29
1969	State v. Lizotte†	249 A.2d 874	28
1968	Jones v. Maine State Highway Commission†	238 A.2d 226	28
1965	Potter v. Schafter†	211 A.2d 891	25
1963	Michaud v. City of Bangor†	196 A.2d 106	25
1965	State v. Bey†	206 A.2d 413	23
1970	Farnum v. C. J. Merrill, Inc.†	264 A.2d 150	22
1969	State v. Harriman†	259 A.2d 752	22
1969	Bernier v. Coca-Cola Bottling Plants, Inc.†	250 A.2d 820	22
1966	Community Telecasting Service v. Johnson†	220 A.2d 500	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 128 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 Harold C. Marden on?: Harold C. Marden was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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7 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).