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 1979 / Served to 1981

Harry P. Glassman

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Harry P. Glassman was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–1981
Tenure: 1979–1981 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Glassman authored 55 published opinions for the court (1979–1981), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lagasse (88 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. 60 of these were attributed to Glassman 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
1980	State v. Lagasse†	410 A.2d 537	88
1980	Hodgdon v. Campbell†	411 A.2d 667	82
1980	Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. v. Alexander†	411 A.2d 74	76
1980	Woolley v. Henderson†	418 A.2d 1123	62
1981	Anderson v. Neal†	428 A.2d 1189	54
1980	Carter v. Carter†	419 A.2d 1018	49
1980	State v. Estes†	418 A.2d 1108	48
1979	Wood v. Wood†	407 A.2d 282	44
1980	State v. Johnson†	413 A.2d 931	41
1981	Brown v. State, Department of Manpower Affairs†	426 A.2d 880	36
1979	Moreau v. Zayre Corp.†	408 A.2d 1289	35
1980	State v. Linscott†	416 A.2d 255	34
1979	Cox v. Dela Cruz†	406 A.2d 620	31
1980	Minott v. FW Cunningham & Sons†	413 A.2d 1325	30
1979	State v. Ann Marie C.· Dissent†	407 A.2d 715	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 60 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 Harry P. Glassman on?: Harry P. Glassman was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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2 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).