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 1935 / Served to 1946

Harry Manser

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Harry Manser was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (15 judges, selected by gubernatorial appointment), who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1874–1955
Tenure: 1935–1946 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Manser authored 96 published opinions for the court (1935–1946), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: State v. Bobb (31 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. 98 of these were attributed to Manser 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
1942	State v. Bobb†	138 Me. 242	31
1936	Kelley v. Brunswick School District· Dissent†	134 Me. 414	22
1937	Nadeau v. Perkins†	135 Me. 215	15
1936	Ouelette v. Miller†	134 Me. 162	14
1942	Osteopathic Hospital v. City of Portland†	139 Me. 24	13
1937	Pringle v. Gibson†	135 Me. 297	13
1937	Abbott v. Danforth†	135 Me. 172	13
1945	Hawkins v. Portland Gas Light Co.†	141 Me. 288	12
1945	State v. Pooler†	141 Me. 274	12
1942	In re Will of Cox†	139 Me. 261	12
1942	People's Savings Bank v. Chesley†	138 Me. 353	12
1945	Preston v. Reed†	141 Me. 386	11
1940	Estabrook v. Webber Motor Co.†	137 Me. 20	11
1939	State v. Langelier†	136 Me. 320	11
1938	Elliott v. Montgomery†	135 Me. 372	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 98 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 Manser on?: Harry Manser was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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10 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).