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 1940 / Served to 1953

Harold H. Murchie

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Harold H. Murchie was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1953
Tenure: 1940–1953 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Murchie authored 99 published opinions for the court (1940–1953), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Farris ex rel. Dorsky v. Goss (37 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. 105 of these were attributed to Murchie 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
1948	Farris ex rel. Dorsky v. Goss· Dissent†	143 Me. 227	37
1941	Inhabitants of the Town of Warren v. Norwood†	138 Me. 180	37
1942	State v. Saba†	139 Me. 153	28
1950	Wade v. Warden of State Prison· Dissent†	73 A.2d 128	26
1947	Baker's Case†	143 Me. 103	21
1953	W. S. Libbey Co. v. Johnson	94 A.2d 907	20
1951	Bernstein v. Carmichael†	82 A.2d 786	20
1945	Lander v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.†	141 Me. 422	20
1945	Gosselin†	141 Me. 412	16
1952	State v. Hoffses†	85 A.2d 919	15
1950	State v. Peterson†	75 A.2d 368	15
1942	Lunt v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.†	139 Me. 218	15
1952	Mellen v. Mellen†	90 A.2d 818	14
1951	Hultzen v. Witham†	78 A.2d 342	14
1951	State v. Newcomb†	78 A.2d 787	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 107 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 H. Murchie on?: Harold H. Murchie was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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12 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).