How do judges of the Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1963 / Served to 1964

Harold C. Sylvester

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Harold C. Sylvester was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1985
Tenure: 1963–1964 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sylvester authored 6 published opinions for the court (1964), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Avery v. Bender (15 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. 7 of these were attributed to Sylvester 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
1964	Avery v. Bender· Dissent†	204 A.2d 314	15
1964	Sheldon Slate Products Co. v. Kurjiaka†	204 A.2d 99	13
1964	Siebert v. Siebert†	124 Vt. 187	13
1964	Winter v. Unaitis†	204 A.2d 115	9
1964	State v. Crosby†	204 A.2d 123	7
1964	Bailey v. Town of Cabot†	197 A.2d 783	7
1964	In Re Fitts†	197 A.2d 808	4

Showing the 7 most-cited of 7 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 Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Harold C. Sylvester on?: Harold C. Sylvester was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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1 year on the Vermont Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).